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January 24, 2023
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enable custom frame rate on export in premiere pro 2020

  • January 24, 2023
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Please enable 'custom' frame rate option on export settings,
so that users who are editing for example source footage
coming from 8mm or 16mm based on frame rates like 16fps or 18fps,
can export them to such frame rates or other.
you can check the thread here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/export-18fps-sequence/td-p/10486209?page=1

46 replies

wesleym20229622
Participant
December 21, 2023

This please. With the huge return happening in shooting film, especially on Super 8, it would be wonderful to have custom frame rates. As A big fan and user of Adobe Premiere Pro for the last decade I'm sadly having to considering leaving the platform for a bunch of my commercial work that all needs 18fps to stay intact from import to export. Adobe, please bring back custom frame rate exports.

Participant
January 24, 2023
I'm using the Reflecta Super8-Scanner, alas it's no longer available since 2019. The biggest advantage is that every frame is saved as a TIFF. So you won't run into any problems with framerates or compression.
That said avoid any scanners that just scan directly to video. These devices are unusable, because 1) they used extremely high compression which introduces artifacts en masse and 2) the video files are 24/25 fps which results in flickering and wrong speed.
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Hi Ellie and everyone else, could you tell us what equipment do you have to scan those old movies and could you provide file samples ?
estanzel
Participant
January 24, 2023
clearly for those of us taking those family libraries of 50-60 year old 8mm and super 8mm film, we need this feature.
Participant
January 24, 2023
It's hard to understand why this functionality is not there. It's really essential for editing some home movies.
Participant
January 24, 2023
This is a massive oversight that has wasted 10+ hours of my time. This is supposed to be professional software, it costs enough that you should sort this out ASAP.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Yeah this really is a little suprising to see that this isn't an option after years of this software's history. Choosing the frame rates in between create either duplicate or discarded frames in a given video. Why can't a custom framerate option be implemented when it seems to be relatively easy to add? Is it really to keep paid plugins that offer this from becoming obsolete?
Participant
January 24, 2023
Come on Adobe. Davinci can do it, FCP can do it, Avid can do it, Nucoda can do it. Give us at least 16 and 18fps which are common for 8mm and 16mm silent films.
Plenty of people working with film scans, be it archival material or freshly shot super8 or 16mm film…
There is zero excuse for this feature not to be available.
Besides it would speed up export considerably, especially with the hardware h264 encoding capabilities
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Antoine, you are spamming. You're right, your solution disincentivizes Adobe from adding the feature, but there's no way on **** I'm paying for a feature that should be native to the app.

Thank you for sharing your solution to the problem, now kindly leave this thread. If people need more help they should do it directly through your platform, this is wasting everyone's time.
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
We can discuss this by email https://www.autokroma.com/contact but in theory AfterCodecs is only getting the frames Adobe Premiere sends it, there should be no slow down. It could be choppy because hard to decode 120 fps at real time though ! Depends on your computer and video player