• Adobe Premiere Pro

  framerate workflow question

  Posted by Carl Endres on November 17, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  Hi, I have always had footage that was shot at 29.97 fps.

  A friend has asked for some help in editing some footage that was actually taken using a still cameras MPEG movie mode.

  The raw footage specs are
  640×480 14.98 fps and
  11,025 hz 8 bit two’s complement mono – for the audio
  The video files are .mov

  It is concert footage so keep that in mind. So what ever I do I want to keep the audio synced the video.

  I would like to edit and output to a DVD in 48k stereo if possible. My thought was to use cool edit to convert mono to stereo (I know it won’t be real stereo) and then resampling to 48 k

  Here are my questions:
  1) What settings should I use for the premiere project prior to importing the footage, If I want to output to DVD
  2) Once the footage is imported, how do I properly reinterpet the footage so that it is 29.97fps

  3) With regard to the audio, Should I just bring in the original mono audio which goes along with the clips, export the final edit audio track, do the converting in cool edit, and then reimport into premiere.

  As you can see I’m a little confused in how the workflow should go, any help you can offer would be appreciated. If I’ve missed something all together, let me know that too. Sorry for the long post.
  Thanks – Carl

  Carl Endres replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Eric Jurgenson

  November 19, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  1) Use a standard DV 48 KHz project preset. Import the footage and either size it to full frame using the transform filter, or right click on the clip in the timeline and select “Scale to Frame Size”. It should play at normal speed, which will look jumpy if originally shot at 15 fps. If the speed is off, manually set it with the speed/duration control. You will undoubtably have to render.

  3) In the above mentioned DV project, create a stereo sequence (timeline). When you drag the clip to the video track, the audio should drop down to track #4 (because it is a mono source track, and the first three tracks that are created by default in a stereo sequence are stereo tracks. Mono clips can’t be put on a stereo track.) Premiere will do the conversion to 16-bit 48 KHz stereo (since that’s what the project settings are). The mono track will be centered between the two stereo channels, unless you want to pan it around.
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  Carl Endres

  November 20, 2008 at 12:02 am

  Thank you Eric, just got back and online here and got your message.
  One quick question, you may have made a typo but you listed
  1) which talked about the standard DVD preset and the use of speed

  and then it says
  3)Which talked about the mono stuff

  Was there a 2) that may have been deleted or something?

  in either case I really appreciate you getting back to me.
  Thanks – Carl
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  Eric Jurgenson

  November 20, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  I think I answered question #2 in response #1.

  Further audio processing should not be necessary.
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  Carl Endres

  November 20, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  Thanks Eric, really appreciate everything

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