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Trouble combining 24, 29.97 and 30 fps
Using:
Vista 64
Premier Pro CS 4I’m the “video” guy in my firm and have been tasked with creating videos from projects we work on. I believe PP CS4 is more than we need but it’s what I’ve been given.
My problem is when I’m combining video from different cameras. We currently have:
Sony DV camera that produces video that comes in at 29.97 fps
Canon point/shoot that produces video that comes in at 30 fps
Nikon D90 that produces video that comes in at 24 fpsThe problem is when I bring all this video into PP the 29.97 video previews fine while the 24 and 30 video appears frozen in the preview window…only moving slightly every 5 or 10 seconds.
I haven’t even tried to export a video of the project yet. How can I work with video that is at 24 and 30 fps in PP?
Thanks
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3 Replies
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The issue isn’t the framerates…it’s the video that those still cameras create. Those files are cranky in everything I’ve placed them into except QT player.
AE will handle them, but they still aren’t snappy.
I’d try to convert them to some other filetype before attempting to edit them…or shoot video with a real video camera and be done with it. the compression is so aggressive on those still cameras that it takes a lot of juice to decode them…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Thanks for the reply. I’ve done further investigation which led me to use the Adobe Media Encoder to reexport the clips and now they all play fine. Apparently there are different types of .avi files…didn’t know that. PP likes DV type avi files.
Thanks again.
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PPro “likes” a wide variety of files…these DSLR cameras seem to generate files that are problematic for many NLE packages…not just PPro.
Keep in mind that your DLSR camera is making an HD clip…you might want to try to maintain that resolution so you can use the clip at it’s highest res and zoom in in editing…etc.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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