Vegas 12 – How to set Frame rate of Image Sequence Export

[Norman Black]

Image sequences do not have a frame rate. They are not videos. They are just a collection of static images sequentially numbered.

When you import an image sequence into a video editor, then those images become frames in a video stream and adopt the frame rate of that video stream. So maybe your colourist mistakenly imported the sequence to 24fps.

I assume you used Render As, Image sequence and the DPX template?

[Adam Lieber]

Thanks Norman

Completely right, it was their error.
All good – they claimed the meta data on the first frame was telling their system it was 24fps.

all good now.

best
adam

[Norman Black]

Maybe. Mediainfo does not show anything. I did a test image sequence.

Complete name : D:\Renders\Blue Skies_000000.dpx
CompleteName_Last : D:\Renders\Blue Skies_000164.dpx
Format : DPX
Format version : Version 2
File size : 980 MiB
Encoded date : 2014:01:22:18:29:33:UTC

Video
Format : DPX
Format version : Version 2
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 980 MiB (100%)
Encoded date : 2014:01:22:18:29:33:UTC
Color primaries : Linear

[Adam Lieber]

thanks again.

yes, i think the post house was being difficult because i cut it in vegas.

i tend to mainly stick to premiere these days.
but vegas seems to be the only NLE suite that allows you to bypass cutting in frames – the function of cutting in milliseconds just saved me and being able to set a project to a musical tempo and snap to musical measures was invaluable.
and mostly being able to speed up and slow down footage visually by stretching or compressing a clip as opposed to entering a percentage.

great app – albeit the added export to pproj and import functions are incredibly buggy and inconsistent.

adam

[Stephen Crye]

[adam lieber] “being able to speed up and slow down footage visually by stretching or compressing a clip”

I too find this invaluable. Often I set video to music, and need transitions that happen exactly at a certain time. It usually will not be noticeable that an event has been stretched or squeezed in the time domain a bit.

I will loop a section around the spot in the music where I want the transition to happen. As it loops, I watch the waveform for a shape that is easy to recognize at the time-point I need, then split the event, click-drag it until it reaches the point in the music, and then click-drag the other portion of the split to re-join them at the correct point.

I’m sure there are better ways of doing it, but this has worked well for me.

Steve

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