I have a frame rate issue and I am caught in two minds (I am going to post this on the Premiere Forum as well and the after effects one) in which programme to use to solve my problem. A cameraman friend of mine recently shot some slow motion footage, he used the Panasonic AG-HVX200 with a P2 card to shoot at 38 frames a second. The final edit is in SD/25 frames a second/PAL.
I use the new production premium CS3 package on PC so I have both Premiere Pro and After Effects. Both programmes can take the P2 footage but I was wondering if either one would be better to use?
If I was to take it into After Effects should I change the Comps frame rate to 38 and then export to an SD 25 frame AVI? or can Premiere handle the 38 frame rate? Should I export to mpeg2 HD and then resize it in a 25 frame project?
Is there anyone that knows both programmes well enough to advise me please?
I appropriate the strangeness and round about way I have asked this question but as this is my first feature edit I really want to be able to advise in the most professional way possible.
Re: Frame Rate issue by Vincent Becquiot on Dec 14, 2007 at 7:51:34 pm
AE now ingests P2? Wow, yes, I need that update :-)
Premiere does not support 38P. But that's OK.
Create a new DVCPro 720P 25P PAL project. (That's if the rest of your footage was shot at 25P.) You'll have to force interpret the 38P footage as 25P first. Your clip now plays at it's native frame rate (slow motion in your case). Then simply change the duration/speed up as you wish. Make sure you also turn off frame blending on slow mo clips in your project window or you'll get some ugly jittering.
Re: Frame Rate issue by Ross Bradshaw on Dec 15, 2007 at 1:04:27 pm
Hows it going Vincent?
My friend has shot other rates as well for the sequence so it all starting to get more complicated :-( but not to worry because they are 25 and 50 so not too much to worry about there. The rest of the footage was shot 25P as well.
I'll give your suggestion a go and see how I get on. I got a few ideas from the AE forum as well so Im going to try everything out before I talk to the director.
