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How to find clips that have their “Interpret Footage” attributes changed from the defaults?
I love that Premiere Pro has the ability of changing the interpreted framerate of a clip from 29.97 to 23.98 (ala After Effects) without having to run the source files through Cinema Tools, like in the old “FCP7 days”.
But there is no free lunch, as they say…because I’m finding that this feature is an absolute nightmare when it comes time to conforming and sending an offline sequence to Resolve for grading and roundtripping back to Premiere, since Resolve has no idea that the clip framerate has been reinterpreted from within Premiere, so it loads in incorrect timecode extents.
I’d like to be able to sort out which clips in the project have had their framerates re-interpreted in the “Interpret Footage” options, so that I can manually conform the proper in/out points (at the clip’s original native framerate) before I send the sequence to Resolve.
But as far as I can tell, there’s no metadata column, or obvious way to know if a clip is being reinterpreted, without actually right-clicking on it and opening the Interpret Footage panel for every single clip in question.
Is there another way to easily find these kinds of clips?
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[Mel Matsuoka] “But as far as I can tell, there’s no metadata column, or obvious way to know if a clip is being reinterpreted, without actually right-clicking on it and opening the Interpret Footage panel for every single clip in question. Is there another way to easily find these kinds of clips?”
Make sure the project panel is on list view, and hit the ` key to maximize it. Right-click on one of the column headers at the top of the project and then select “Metadata Display…” Use the search field on top to search for “Frame Rate.”
This will reveal a few fields: the one that’s normally displayed is the Premiere Pro Project Metadata Frame Rate field, but you should also see Dynamic Media > Video Frame Rate. Enable this second one, too. The “Video Frame Rate” field will be displayed all the way at the right of the list; drag it over so that it’s right next to the regular “Frame Rate” field for easy comparison.
If you do a search in the project panel for both frame rates (i.e., search for “29.970030 23.976”) and make sure the scope is set to all, you’ll see a filtered list of your re-interpreted footage items.
Walter Soyka
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Ah, that is a great tip, Walter. Thanks!
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