Allow User-Specified Frame Rates

[Colby25974513deut]

Media Encoder lets us choose from a list of frame rates for our exports, but a specific frame rate can't be entered. I've seen forum responses here over the years that say it simply isn't an option, so I'm requesting it as a feature. I'm converting a 24fps animated sequence to a higher frame rate, so I chose 48 (doubling the original 24 will lead to much less work manually re-interpolating keyframes) but it looks like I'll have to export the final show at 50fps and hope there aren't artifacts or in-between keyframe issues. In the live entertainment and projection design world, non-standard frame rate options would be valuable. Exporting from within After Effects does allow any frame rate to be entered, but that's not an option because it mysteriously locks out the entire program while exporting. Thanks.

[EckiAME]

Created a feature request. Thanks for your feedback.

[Warren Heaton]

This is a great feature request.

I'm not sure why 48 isn't in the Frame Rate pop-up menu.

To get to 48 frames per second, add the source footage to a Composition in Adobe After Effects, change the frame rate to 48 (instead of using the pop-up menu, enter "48" in the frame rate text field), set the preferred frame rate interpolation (the Frame Blending options), and then send that to the After Effects Render Queue;  however, use the High Quality Output Module Template (either as is or changing only the ProRes option).  Don't use the H264 options (that's still Media Encoder) and don't send it to Media Encoder.

[jefubbudu]

ohey, I remember suggesting this back in 2016 on uservoice! what a throwback.

I agree wholeheartedly, and it's shameful that arbitrary framerates aren't a thing- the filetypes the exporter uses have variables specifically to handle that.