Variable Frame Rates Premiere 2.0

David Osborne

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I'm sure this has been asked before but a search of past topics yielded nothing so here it goes.

In a Premiere Pro 2.0 timeline, using Raylight, I want to incorporate some HVX 720/30P footage shot onto a Firestore drive at 32 frames per second.

I ran the footage through Raylight and created .avi files and judging by the properties window in Premiere, Raylight did a good job at recognizing the flagged frames and making the .avi files have a framerate of 32. Hooray!

However, when plopping these clips into a 720/30P timeline, Premiere messes up my whole little subtle slow-mo scheme. It thinks it's more important to preserve the actual time of the clip, so it applies frame blending or discards frames (I'm not exactly sure what is going on) to squeeze the extra two frames into each second rather than doing what I want and just playing it back at 30 fps. Boo!

I figured out that frame blending was the cause of the annoying "double vision" that I was getting intermittently, and that prompted me to realize that Premiere was trying to squeeze many frames into fewer frames. So I turned off frame blending and now I get crisp individual frames, just not in slow motion.

Yes the extra 2 frames per second aren't a humongous deal, but that's what I want if I can get it.

Is there some way that I can tell Premiere to simply display 30 individual frames per second and not try to be smart by cramming/discarding/blending/whatever my beautiful extra frames?

:dankk2:
 
You want to use Raylight to conform the footage to 30fps. Don't just let it strip out the duplicate frames, because you end up with a 32fps "real time" clip; instead you want to force the timebase to 29.97 so you end up with a 29.97fps "slow mo" clip. Reprocess the clip through raylight (make sure you have the latest version) and force the timebase to 30fps. Then it'll automatically import into Premiere the way you want it to.
 
Thank you Mr. Green, that's exactly what I was looking for. Also, thank you for writing the HVX book. I keep it with me in my camera bag at all times, it's such a comprehensive resource that has helped me, on many occasions, maintain the illusion that I know what I'm doing.

Cheers!
 
You want to use Raylight to conform the footage to 30fps. Don't just let it strip out the duplicate frames, because you end up with a 32fps "real time" clip; instead you want to force the timebase to 29.97 so you end up with a 29.97fps "slow mo" clip. Reprocess the clip through raylight (make sure you have the latest version) and force the timebase to 30fps. Then it'll automatically import into Premiere the way you want it to.

Yep. Here is the option highlighted in RayMaker 3.01 if
that was not clear enough:

varispeed.jpg
 
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