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[Richard Harrington]

Convert footage with Ae with frame blending or compressor so all frame rates match

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

[Iris Wakulenko]

HI Richard – Thanks for your reply. I’d really appreciate some more detail on how to do it in Compressor… (What’s AE?). Thanks, Iris

[John Fishback]

AE is Adobe After Effects. The Compressor workflow has been extensively discussed. Search and you’ll find your answers. The key to high-quality encodes in Compressor is using Frame Controls. But, not only will it greatly increase quality, it will also greatly increase encode times.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)

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[Uli Plank]

Motion does a decent job when re-timing too, but you need to activate Flow Motion.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Neil Weaver]

One of Britain’s biggest post-production facilities uses the freeware Mpeg Streamclip for all its compression these days simply because it does a far better and quicker job than Apple’s Compressor.

Using Motion or AE could take you days or even weeks depending on your system and how much footage you have.

One tool you could try is Apple’s Cinema Tools – you can batch convert entire folders from and to any frame rate you require although it doesn’t offer any resizing controls. It’s also destructive in that it doesn’t create new files, it irreversibly encodes the original clips to your new chosen frame rate so if you don’t like the outcome, you’ve no way of going back. The way round it, as always, is to back up first.