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March 15, 2018
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Advice for Editing + Exporting in 8 FPS

  • March 15, 2018
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Hey, everyone. I'm beginning to wish I posted here to start with before editing a rough cut, but I didn't and now I'm in export hell and trying to troubleshoot.

I'm editing with 5K .r3d files (5120 x 2700) recorded at 8 FPS (I used interpret footage to adjust all clips to 8 FPS after importing them to the project). I've got my movie cut together and each time I've attempted to export it, it has crashed. When I send it to Adobe Media Encoder it always ends up freezing somewhere in the video. The preview shows the same frame and it ends up taking forever to move by that one frame.

I'm trying to go through and render each clip in my timeline and see if any are causing problems then trouble shooting that bit by bit.

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I'm also beginning to think I've made some larger error in my workflow. Does anyone here have experience editing + exporting videos at frame rates below 23.98? If so I'd love to get some advice on everything you did.

EDIT:

Does anyone know how to adjust the Sequence Settings for a timebase lower than 10 FPS? I want to make it 8 FPS since that's what the clips I'm working with are at. I just found an FAQ that mentioned that if the sequence settings don't match the clip settings it can add a lot of time to the export time.

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Correct answer Terecs

Hey all. Posted this to reddit and got some answers. The problem is probably that the frame rate of my sequence is different from the frame rate of the video i'm exporting.

In this case I'm trying to deliver a video at 8 FPS and the sequence settings only go to 10 FPS. People recommended working with my 8 FPS clips in a 24 FPS Sequence then exporting at 24 FPS. So long as the FPS of the sequence you're working with is a multiple of the clip's FPS it should be fine (24 being a multiple of 8). Apparently, in animation this is common. "You’ll hear people say that their animation is “on twos.” That means they’re giving you 12fps for your 24fps timeline. In your situation, your footage is on threes. Hope that helps." -- FatGirlSquad of Reddit.

Redditors also suggested, in the future, recording at 24 FPS then using the "Posterize" effect to adjust the frame rate in post. I haven't tested this so I can't say how good it would look, though.

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Terecs
TerecsAuthorCorrect answer
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March 15, 2018

Hey all. Posted this to reddit and got some answers. The problem is probably that the frame rate of my sequence is different from the frame rate of the video i'm exporting.

In this case I'm trying to deliver a video at 8 FPS and the sequence settings only go to 10 FPS. People recommended working with my 8 FPS clips in a 24 FPS Sequence then exporting at 24 FPS. So long as the FPS of the sequence you're working with is a multiple of the clip's FPS it should be fine (24 being a multiple of 8). Apparently, in animation this is common. "You’ll hear people say that their animation is “on twos.” That means they’re giving you 12fps for your 24fps timeline. In your situation, your footage is on threes. Hope that helps." -- FatGirlSquad of Reddit.

Redditors also suggested, in the future, recording at 24 FPS then using the "Posterize" effect to adjust the frame rate in post. I haven't tested this so I can't say how good it would look, though.

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    Emptybox370583720uqu
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    April 29, 2024

    the only answer that made me understand this problem, thank you so much

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