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Call Apple about this problem, they should be able to help you.
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Probably not going to work properly because the frame rates will be different and there will likely be some differences in the Metadata.
If it does relink your cuts will likely not start on the same frame and things will progressively slide further out of sync. You are likely looking at a recut.
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This is because all Smart Phones and many Consumer Cameras shoot Variable Frame Rate Footage. The only way to to get around this is to use a proper piece of software on your Smartphone like Filmic Pro. Secondly if you’re going to edit at 25fps then there should only be 25fps footage, mixing in other frame rates like 23.976, 24, 29.97, 30 etc. is just asking for trouble.
As I said before the only way to fix this is to convert everything to proper constant frame rates. Some people use Handbrake to fix this but I’ve had luck on a couple of occasions with DaVinci Resolve. Now having said that Resolve is a Pro Product so even it can’t deal with variable frame rate footage on many occasions. When it can’t then the Audio will drift out of sync with the Video and other oddities will crop up.
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What was all of this shot on.
If you have Frame Rates like 24.9, 25.9, 26, 29 etc. then your likely working with Variable Frame Rate Footage. The standard Frame Rates are 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94 and 60. This is likely what’s causing this issue. All of this odd frame rate footage should have been converted to standard constant frame rates before the edit even started as no NLE can deal with these without some kind issues cropping up. Mixing frame rates is bad enough without throwing variable frame rate footage into the mix.
If you want to fix this you will need to convert everything to standard constant frame rates and then recut in the footage thats causing these blending issues.
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Good luck, this is going to be a nightmare of fixes and screwed up edits.
If any syncing is done from one platform to the other then all hell is going to break loose.As the all other posters will say, if they edit in Avid you edit in Avid.
This is going to be an absolute disaster and likely the last work you will ever do with these guys because of all the problems this is going to cause.
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It could be as simple as 872/1080=0.8074 and you would enter that into the Mask Tool.
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Yes there should be but I do not know what the formula is in Premiere, I primarily use Avid so therefore I know what it is in Avid. Don’t refer to them as “Black Bars” you are adding a “Mask” over top of your video to chop off the top and bottom portions.
So take a look at the Mask Tool in Premiere and see if there is an easy way to calculate this, there usually is.
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If a video was done at any aspect ratio other than 1.78:1 like, 1.85, 2.35 or 2.39 and Windows Media Player is not playing it back with black bars (i.e. Letterboxed) then Windows Media Player is not playing it back properly. This would also mean that everything you watch at these aspect ratios will either be stretched and people will all look tall and skinny or the left and right portions of the video will be cropped off.
In the end who are you delivering this to, if it’s a broadcaster then they will want it as 1920×1080 Letterboxed. If not get you will need to get the delivery specs from whoever is going to receive the video in the end. Lastly many times the recipient of the video will take something like a 1920×872 video and place it into a 1920×1080 frame so it will get padded (i.e. Letterboxed) anyway.
Let’s face it TV’s are 1.78:1 so any of these aspect ratios will need to be padded with black and played back letterboxed. Again what is the final destination for this video and what are their delivery specs.
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That would be 872 and the reason for the division by 4 is because macro blocks in video are always either 2×2, 4×4, 8×8 or 16×16 in size. All of which are divisible by 4, this comes into play especially when you compress video into something like an mp4, H.264, H.265 etc.
Please someone give me crap if I got any of this wrong.
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It’s very simple math. Let’s base the width of the video as 1920 because that’s an easy standard to work with. So 1920/2.2 = 872.7272…. so use either 873 or 872 as your height. You could even round up to 874 to make things nice and even.
It’s very simple to calculate for any aspect ratio.
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