• Adobe After Effects

  29.97 to 23.98

  Posted by Seaton Lin on June 2, 2005 at 11:51 pm

  I have some footage shot at 29.97 with the new HDV format. I would like to convert this footage to 23.98 and do all the editing and compositing at 23.98. Is this possible, if so, how can it be done in FCP and After Effects?

  Would it be better to first edit the piece in 29.97 and then convert the edit to 23.98 to do the compositing?

  Thank you

  Jonathan Miller replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Anonymous

  June 3, 2005 at 4:43 am

  magic bullet suite for after effects, expensive though.
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  Jonathan Miller

  June 3, 2005 at 6:45 am

  Personally, I like the Twixtor plugin from Re:Vision FX. You can do a 29.97 interlaced to 23.976 progressive conversion, or basically anything to anything…especially slowing down footage with very effective results. Plus, it’s not that expensive in the grand scheme of things.

  HOWEVER, if you’re looking to convert all of your selects to 24p before the edit, it’s going to take forever. That would probably be the best way to do it, so that your dissolves and fades would be at a proper frame rate, but again, the rendering hit will be huge.

  It will still work very well to just convert your finished piece to 24p. Just be prepared for some strobing here and there (par for the 24p course). If you go the Twixtor route, I’d also recommend getting their FieldsKit deinterlacing plugin which is very inexpensive, and check out the frame rate conversion tutorials on their website.

  Plus, I just like that company. Good guys.

  Good luck!

  Jon
  TreeLine Productions
  Fort Collins, CO USA

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