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MXF files interpreted incorrectly in After Effects
Hello,
I’m using the P2 .mxf format to record 720p 24p video. I am using a Firestore FS-100 to capture footage from my HVX200. I imported the clips into premiere and they work fine, but when I import them into After Effects, the MXF files are interpreted as having 30fps. I tried to force them to be interpreted as 24fps, but when in a composition, the playback is jerky and it looks like frames are being duplicated. Is there some setting that I don’t know about that is causing AE to playback the 24fps weird?
Thanks.
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6 Replies
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Try setting the frame rate to be preserved while nested or in render queue, that might be the problem. I am assuming the comp you drop it into is 24fps aswell, not 25/30?
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysFX -
I already tried setting the frame rate to be preserved. I have tried 30fps in a 24fps comp and 24fps in a 30fps comp as well as 24/24 and 30/30 and nothing is working.
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You may have to remove the pulldown from the footage seeing as you have repeated frames every so often. right click on the footage and go interpret>main and click guess 3:2 pulldown while also setting the frame rate to 24p.
Hope this helps,
Pat Jaeger -
yep, i think dave is on to something… a friend of mine has an hvx and even though i’ve only worked with 720p60 from his camera, i remember him talking about having a few different 24p settings that he could shoot in… something like normal 24p, which either had a standard pulldown or had a duplicate frame to make it 30fps; 24pA, which was used the advanced pulldown; and 24pN, which shot at native 24p frame rate, no pulldown or duplicate frames… he mentioned the advantage of 24pN being that it saved space on the p2 cards by 20% just by eliminating the duplicate frames, thus the reason for 24pN.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Hey thanks,
Yes I remember reading about the pN, but I wasn’t quite sure how it worked. Thanks for the help!
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I’m having a similar problem, and no idea how to resolve it. I have footage a client shot on his Panasonic camera which he insists is 30fps, but Quicktime says it’s weird rates like 25.52, 24.05, 30.55, and those are, to my knowledge, imaginary. If I interpret the footage in AE at those numbers, and put them in comps at those frame rates, they increment normally, but add held frames in 30fps comps.
voodoo.
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