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General bit of NTSC to PAL frame rate advice, please!
Hi,
Posted this here because I’m mostly working in Premiere but it could apply anywhere I guess. Here’s the story:
I’m working at 1080i 50, but I’m cutting a compilation show made up of clips from all over the world. Largely I’m working with 1080 50i clips so no problem there, but I’m also getting a lot of 23.98 and 29.97 stuff. With the 23.98 I’m just conforming to 25 within Premiere, but for 29.97 this is obviously a big change in pitch and speed.
Would it be best for me to ask that all NTSC stuff be delievered as 23.98 so I can just conform to 25? I’m mostly getting Prores so would it be right to ask for 23.976p Prores HQs? Is there a better course of action?
I realise that the real answer is ‘pay for them to be professionally standards converted’ but obviously that costs money and wont be allowed!
Any help appreciated! Thanks,
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Hey Mark,
There’s many ways to do this. I will write what I think is best.1- Long way: is to conform only the video to to the desired frame-rate (25 fps I guess) and to keep the original sound untouched. Then using the “rate stretch tool” [R] , you can speed up the video again to match the original audio which is the original video speed. Since all of this can be done without rendering, you don’t need to process the videos one by one before starting your edit.
2- Shortcut: One of the things that I love about Premiere is that you can edit different clips with different frame-rates or/and dimensions on the same sequence!!
Just drag the clip without conforming and premiere will do the job to keep the speed and pitch.In both methods, if you’re going to export your final edit using 25fps, premiere will convert the frame-rates during export. It will keep the speed and pitch as the original.
Hope this was helpful,
Hasan Salame
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