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February 14, 2025
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Export clip with original 5 fps

  • February 14, 2025
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Using Premiere Pro, I am making short videoclips from longer videos recorded at 5 fps. 5 fps is used for technical reasons and is adequate for the purpose. I want the clips to have identical quality and fps as the input, i.e. no re-encoding, just copying the relevant frames. However, in the export tab, Premier won't let me choose lower fps than 10. I can't see any good reason for such a limitation. The resulting exported video indeed has an fps = 10 in the metadata tag. However, duration is correct, not half as long as expected if playback speed was doubled by doubling fps. Playback of the exported video also seems correct. This indicates either a doubling of the framecount by interlacing, wich I doubt, or rather an erroneous mismatch between fps tag and real fps (bug). This is very unfortunate, because the consequences for later use of the video clips in various programs are unknow, since I do not know if the eronous tag will be used.

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karl_7081Author
Participant
February 14, 2025

Thank you

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2025

Its not a bug but the way it is designed.

Export framerate depends on which codec you choose.

H.264 does not go lower than 10 fps.

If you choose Quicktime you can get as low as 1 fps.

karl_7081Author
Participant
February 14, 2025

Yes, I'm using H.264 and need that. I've checked the video export more closely, and it appears that Premiere achieves 10 fps by simply duplicating each frame. This is very bad practice, and I can't see any good reason for such a limitation. It should be possible to export with the same fps as input, at least as long as fps is not extremely high. Is Adobe intending to make any changes to this? As for now, Premiere is unusable for my simple clipping purpose.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2025

I will move this thread to the Ideas board to turn it into a feature request.