• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Matching footage with different frame-rates.

  Posted by Ken Eakins on October 14, 2012 at 7:32 am

  Hi all,

  I’ve just taken on a project from a client who has shot a three-camera shoot, and now doesn’t have the time to actually edit it all together. Simple enough, I thought, however, he had neglected to tell me that he’d shot it all on three different cameras, and all at differing frame-rates.

  When I came to adding all the footage to the timeline to sync it all up, I found that clips were not matching properly. Now, I’m assuming this is because of the framerate, but I’m not totally sure. At the beginning of the tl, they all seem to match, but later in the clips, some of the footage (the panasonic I think) seems totally off.

  If this is the issue, can any of you advise a simple solution (away from ‘re-shoot it’), or plugin that I can use? I tried plural eyes, but even that was foxed by the whole thing, and just crashed.

  I have the following footage to work with:
  Sony Z1E – 25fps
  Canon 550D – 23.976fps
  Some kind of Panasonic – 50fps

  I was wondering if it would help to render out all the clips to the same fps, and then try to match it all together?

  Hopefully one of you fine people will have an answer for me, and thanks in advance.

  Ken Eakins replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  October 15, 2012 at 12:09 pm

  These too are pretty much the same.

  Sony Z1E – 25fps
  Some kind of Panasonic – 50fps

  Your 50i should be 50i/25p. They should sync.

  Try cutting those two together til done. The manually edit in the Canon 550D – 23.976fps

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Ken Eakins

  October 15, 2012 at 6:49 pm

  Sir, you’re a gentleman and a scholar! Worked a treat, thanks!

  I love this forum.

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