• Adobe Premiere Pro

  frame rate for imported titles

  Posted by Tim Linn on August 30, 2011 at 11:49 pm

  I’m involved in a project where I’ve got to create a number of rolling titles in Premiere Pro. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ve been exporting them out of one project, then into the other. The frame rate of my projects is 23.976 but when the title is imported, it is imported as a 29.97 file. WTH?

  I wasn’t sure this made any difference given that it is a synthetic file but it turns out that it does because I’m using ease out and post roll settings which work out to be different durations when the frame rate changes.

  There is no setting for frame rate on export. You are not allowed to interpret footage on a title file. There is no preference for this (although the indeterminate media timebase is set to 23.976). Can anyone tell me what am I missing? It seems the ability to export titles is worthless if you’re not working in 29.97.

  Thanks,
  Tim

  Mike Molenda replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Molenda

  August 31, 2011 at 3:31 pm

  Quite a few things in Premiere are frustratingly built around the assumption that you’re working in 29.97 all the time (only letting you set default transition/still durations in frames not seconds, for instance). This seems like one of those little things that the folks at Adobe just overlooked. Maybe we’ll see it fixed in CS6?

  Anyway, my workaround has been to copy the titles from my first project to the clipboard, open the second project, and paste them back into the Project panel. This retains the original frame rate, where export/import for some reason strips it off.

  You can always try the reverse, too. Import your second project into the project with the properly-timed titles and add them there, then save as a new project.
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  Tim Linn

  August 31, 2011 at 9:17 pm

  Since my original post, I’ve discovered that I can open the imported 29.97 title and make an exactly copy with whatever framerate I desire with the press of one button at the top of the title designer panel. (It’s the button with the “T” inside the film frame.) That’s resolved my issue although copy-and-paste might be even easier in some circumstances. Thanks for the idea, Mike.
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  Mike Molenda

  September 1, 2011 at 6:36 pm

  Thanks for the tip, I wouldn’t have thought of that. Especially since I’d probably just duplicate the clip in the Project panel before I tried opening the title and clicking on that thing!

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