Project different framerates

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Hi there,First of all, I'm Dutch. So I hope you can understand my English I have a very, very embarassing question. I filmed quite a big project. And because it was a whole day, I just started importing and selecting the right clips. Nothing about editing.But somehow, I didn't think of different framerates. Quite stupid  So I edited for I think 6 hours, I have a total of 6 minutes and 48 seconds, with clips less than 5 seconds. I made my sequence in 59,94 fps, because that's what I filmed most. However, from another filmmaker which I got footage from, and some 4K footage I made too, I have this framerates:29,97 fps50 fps (from the other filmmaker)59,94 fpsSo I'm thinking if there is a possibility to solve this. When interpret all footage as 29,97, it (of course) collapses. Because I pasted it all behind each other, on the rythym om the music. Is it a good idea to have, for example, a nest called: 'preparing for the day'. Then collect all that footage from the nest, make the footage 29,97, make the nest 29,97? I'm not reallly known in Premiere, so I got those tiny red numbers with -... Which means I thought something like it doesn't fit. But I really don't know how to solve this.So, blame me, but do you guys have some brilliant ideas, which I could apply? I understand it will take some hours to do it, but I'm just looking what is the best way. Or, maybe, worst case scenario, I'll have to do it all over again  That's the only thing I could think of right now, but I thought, let's ask first

Ann Bens · Accepted Answer

Next time educate the cameramen to set all framerate the same:

Holland is a PAL country were 25 and 50 are the norm.

I dont understand why they have to use so called American framerates.

Cause now you are stuck with their mess.

Rado Nedyalkov · Answer

As far as i can tell since CC 2014 to latest premier there is option in preferences (Edit>Preferences>Media) for conforming variable frame rate clips to one specific frame rate, other option is to just save copy of project and in the project bin select clips that you use, Shift+G or Right click on them chose Modify, new windows will pop up with three tabs 1.Audio channels, 2.Interpret footage, 3. Timecode. Click on second tab 2. Interpret footage click on radial button called "Assume this frame rate" and type what frame rate that you need. The same operation can by done in timeline just select every clip that have different frame rate and press Shift+G !BUT! that work only if the clip have it's original audio attached to it! change frame rate and see if your edit is changed.

In my experience dragging and dropping and editing clips with variable frame rate in timeline never was a problem because of that option in the preferences, exporting is the same story other than little motion blur for VFR portion of video no change.

You also can select your edit right click>make sub sequence that creates sequence of only selected clips, then make new sequence with the right frame rate Drag and Drop sub sequence In>Out and export it and preview the exported clip for errors in the frame rate side.

But in general there don't have to be problem for Premier to conform those clips so try those option only if you see that something is not right in final render.

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