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So, do I understand you correctly that I should follow your advice setting the frame rate in my timeline to 59.94, as in the screenshot above, then change my frame size to 4096x2160, but then when I export, what frame rate should I pick?
You had said to export at 1920x1080, but I don't follow why?
By @Lane23499113pawo
Yes, i would have done so to keep the smooth motion.
When you export for social media, use 59.94 fps. When exporting for the TV you mentioned earlier, use 29.97, interl
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Great, thanks. Finally, since most all of my footage is shot at 50 fps and only one clip at 59.94, should I still use 59.94 as the highest rate as you suggested before, or drop to 50?
By @Lane23499113pawo
I wrote about that earlier:
"It do also depends on how much of each footage there is. It may not be worth it if you have let´s say ten seconds of 59.94 footage and two hours of 50 fps footage. If that´s the case i would choose a 50 fps timeline to edit in."
So since that seems to be the c
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What am I doing wrong? What are the best settings for exporting? I'm new to this program.
By @Lane23499113pawo
You are probably trying to export to a format/codec that for some reason stops you from doing some changes. If you write back your export settings here it´s easier to help since it´s hard to guess what you use today.
In short there are no "best settings" for exporting. If you edit 4K and export 4K it´s the best one if you want 4K. If you need 1080p right away, exporting to 4K is one of the least wanted settings. So, what you export to depends on were the export will be used, almost always.
The reason behind your smart TV don´t playback 50 fps can be due to that the TV is too old or simply that you have exported to a format/codec that the TV don´t support. Consult the manual for the TV to find out the supported formats/codecs and supported frame rates for the TV.
When I play it, the birds are blurred by fast motion. Thats to be expected. I shot it at 60 fps in my camera and am trying to figure out how to render it to play with the leaset motion blur possible.
By @Lane23499113pawo
If the footage are blurred at 60 fps it will look blurred, always. There is no magic trick with video, such as you can take 60 fps blurred video and export it to another random frame rate and *boom* it will look crisp clean with no blur just beacuse you choosed another frame rate at export. You can never fix blur, or anything else in video, by exporting to another frame rate. You can never fix video and make it look better just by exporting it to another frame rate than the original.
Exporting to a different frame rate than your source footage is really a great way to make the video look worse than the original, never better.
For example, if the source footage is 60 fps and you export it to 50 fps, 10 frames per second of your source footage is thrown away, and you will see it, especially when there is motion in the video. No improvement there.
As for my TV, yes, it may be because its older and it only seems to be able to play at 30 fps. But I also want to play it, and share it, for viewing on a PC, so am thinking that I should do that at 50 fps or some ohter rate when rendering?
By @Lane23499113pawo
Forget 50 fps if your source footage is 60 fps. Always.
Do one export for the TV and do another one for sharing the footage. 30 fps for the TV and 60 fps for sharing.
For the TV i would export to 30i and not 30p. If you export to 30i the 60p will be perfectly baked down and all smooth motion in the source footage will be retained. If you choose 30p you will notice that the footage is choppy.
i=Interlaced
p=Progressive
But, when I try to select i or p, it is greyed out, wont let me select other than p?
By @Lane23499113pawo
I don´t know what you are exporting to and what settings you use. Post info about that.
By @Lane23499113pawo
You should start with using a timeline that matches your footage. On the screen dump you provided the timeline is set to 29.97 and you are exporting to 60 fps. Placing 60 fps footage on a 29.97 fps timeline and then exporting to 60 fps will look bad. Any mismatch will look bad. Your source footage was 60 fps, right? Or was it 59.94?
And, 60 fps or 59.94 fps is never interlaced.
If you want 29.97 interlaced footage to use on your TV, use the setting below after you changed your timeline to match your footage.
Premiere Pro is not so smart that one can use any settings randomly and then expect the export to automagically understand how things should be. So creating timeline with correct settings from the start is King. 🙂
Some are 59.94, some are at 50, some at 29.97.
Exporting for the TV is not the most important consideration for me, more so concerned about posting on social media.
By @Lane23499113pawo
If it were me i would aim to use the highest frame rate, in this case 59.94. This means, edit all footage in a timeline that is 59.94 fps and export to 59.94 fps and use that footage for social media.
If you have a 59.94 timeline and drop 50 fps footage in it that footage will playback with no stuttering/dropped frames. If you do the other way around and use a 29.97 fps timeline and put 59.94/50 fps footage in it you will clearly see how the 59.94 fps and 50 fps footage drop frames every second. The same goes for using a 50 fps timeline and drop 59.94 fps footage in it.
It do also depends on how much of each footage there is. It may not be worth it if you have let´s say ten seconds of 59.94 footage and two hours of 50 fps footage. If that´s the case i would choose a 50 fps timeline to edit in.
To do this, should I make a new sequence within the edit I already have going so I dont need to start over?
By @Lane23499113pawo
Click in the sequence you have and go to Sequence > Sequence Settings. This will bring up the Sequence Settings dialog were the changes needed can be made to an existing sequence. If something is greyed out, change the Editing Mode to Custom. Click OK when done and continue to edit.
Ah, OK. I think I'm getting the idea. Here I changed the timeline to 59.94. Do I need to change anything else? What frame size? (I'm using FUll HD 1920x1080 for now
Ah, OK. I think I'm getting the idea. Here I changed the timeline to 59.94. Do I need to change anything else? What frame size? (I'm using FUll HD 1920x1080 for now
By @Lane23499113pawo
Frame Size should match your footage. The sequence on the screen dump is set to 3840x2160 so if you source footage is 1920x1080 you need to change it. If the source footage is 3840x2160, keep it and choose 1920x1080 in the Export Settings when you export the footage.
So, do I understand you correctly that I should follow your advice setting the frame rate in my timeline to 59.94, as in the screenshot above, then change my frame size to 4096x2160, but then when I export, what frame rate should I pick?
You had said to export at 1920x1080, but I don't follow why?
By @Lane23499113pawo
Yes, i would have done so to keep the smooth motion.
When you export for social media, use 59.94 fps. When exporting for the TV you mentioned earlier, use 29.97, interlaced. 29.97 progressive will look stuttery while 29.97 interlaced will look as smoth as the original footage, and the TV is made for interlaced footage and will do a better job deinterlacing it than Premiere Pro.
Great, thanks. Finally, since most all of my footage is shot at 50 fps and only one clip at 59.94, should I still use 59.94 as the highest rate as you suggested before, or drop to 50?
By @Lane23499113pawo
I wrote about that earlier:
"It do also depends on how much of each footage there is. It may not be worth it if you have let´s say ten seconds of 59.94 footage and two hours of 50 fps footage. If that´s the case i would choose a 50 fps timeline to edit in."
So since that seems to be the case for you a 50 fps timeline may be worth it, but i write "may" since the 29.97 fps footage will cause issues since 50 is cannot be even divided to 29.97 while 59.94 can. It all depends of how much time of each footage there is. Trial and error til you find the best solution. Mixing frame rates boils down to compromises. "If i do X, this happens but if i do Y that happens but i cannot do both..."
This is why i always aim to use the highest framerate of the footage since i dislike dropped frames and stuttery footage. (trial end error once again...)
If you use a 50 fps timeline, export to 25 fps for your TV but expect seeing dropped frames in the 29.97 footage.
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