• Compression Techniques

  Compressor vs. Cinema Tools Frame Rate Conversion

  Posted by Jessica Mantheiy on June 23, 2012 at 2:41 am

  Hi everyone,

  I have probably an out-dated question, but I’ll ask anyway.

  Which do you think is better for a frame rate conversion: Compressor or Cinema Tools? And why?

  Let me know what you think! Thanks!

  Jessica Muth
  Production Operations Manager
  Video Labs
  Rockville, MD
  301-217-0000
  jm***@*******bs.net

  Craig Seeman replied 13 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Craig Seeman

  June 23, 2012 at 3:55 pm

  Apples and Oranges. These tools do different things.
  Cinema Tools generally changes the flag to change the frame rate.
  Compressor generally uses Optical Flow to create new frames.

  The serve different purposes.
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  Jason Brown

  June 23, 2012 at 8:53 pm

  Fcpx conforms frame rates in the timeline on the fly…it’s smoother than I’ve seen before
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  Craig Seeman

  June 23, 2012 at 9:49 pm

  Absolutely. If you’re battling frame rate issues I’d think one is much better served by using FCPX. I’d add that I believe that that may, at least in part, be due to the difference between how Quicktime and AVFoundation work in handling time.

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