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Film Speed
Hi, Guys,
How does one determine the correct fps when importing unfamiliar video into AE?
Thanks
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5 Replies
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usually the metadata in the video tells you what it is and most video software interprets it correctly, except for image sequences, but hey, there’s not that many uncommon numbers out there. If you can’t find out where the video came from and get its orginal export settings, just see which numbers play back at the right speed, 23.976 29.97 59.94. You can see if it has scanlines by leaving fields off and seeing them in preview window.
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Hey, thanks for your response.
The clip was pulled off a wedding DVD that my friend had. The clip was a VOB file and I was able to drag it onto a FCP timeline. Then from there to After Effects where I’m having some pin tracking complications. I was just wondering if the complications are because I haven’t entered the right film speed or size.
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Did you export from FCP as MPEG? If so, that could be causing you problems. AE doesn’t like MPEG much.
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you could also be having problems tracking if the clip was on the dvd 24p but the pulldown had not been removed… can you step through the footage frame by frame and identify an alternating pattern of progressive frames and interlaced frames in a 3 to 2 cadence?
even if it is interlaced footage (normal 29.97) you’d have problems tracking if ae didn’t correctly separate fields. double check the interpret footage window to make sure ae is separating fields (probably lower for sd ntsc).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Hey thanks all!
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