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frame rate conversion in compressor
I need to convert footage from 25fps to 23.976fps. But the end product would need to be exactly the same length as the 25fps source, so the audio will still match. All the source footage originated from maya tiff sequences at 25fps.
Is there a way in compressor to get the footage to 23.976fps without any ‘juddery’ frames and so the output is exactly the same legth?
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Yes. Create a compressor preset for your desired format and frame rate, and then in the Frame Controls tab, make sure that Retiming is set to Best/100% of source. Prepare for this to take a while as it is one of the most time consuming and processor intensive things you can do with Compressor. But it will keep duration exactly the same and get you to your frame rate. There are other ways to do this in hardware that many will say look better, but those boxes are upwards of $10K. If you can afford to send your footage out to another facility that has one of these frame rate converters, it’s worth it – if not, Compressor is your next best bet.
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great 🙂 I’ll give it a whirl. I read somewhere that cinema tools is also good for this kind of thing. I tried a conversion in adobe media encoder, but the results were poor
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You’d use Cinema Tools if you wanted to conform (i.e. have your 25fps file play back at 23.98fps, slowed down). Since no conversion is involved, there is zero loss of quality. However, it will run longer and the audio is pitched down. If you want to try this, I suggest giving it a shot to see what it does. Make sure however to do this on a copy of your file – Cinema Tools operates on the source file without creating a new one.
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