does media encoder now fix variable frame rate material?

[Michael Grenadier]

Haven't tried it for many years...  but today I have a bunch of material shot on smartphones that is all vfr... 

Tried converting it to prores proxy in media encoder with the match source option...  and they all came out constant frame rate (according to media info).  The vfr clips were all under a minute or 2...  so maybe there are issues with audio synch with longer clips.  Just wondering if the adobe inhouse wizards have changed something and didn't tell us (or did I just miss something).  Gotta say I'd much rather do my fixing of vfr in media encoder rather than handbrake cause I like being able to go directly to a "mezzanine" format.  

thanks as always.  Thought about posting this in the media encoder forum but doesn't seem to be much activity there...

[R Neil Haugen]

The last time I tested, it hadn't. But ... huh, that's interesting it did for you. Hope some others test this out soon also.

And personally, I gave up Handbrake as ShutterEncoder uses the same "engine", namely ffmpeg. But with a much more understandable UI than HandBrake.

Neil

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

AME encodes to cfr but it depends on the framerate on input.

If AME sees the clip as say 54,455 fps that what it will use to convert to 60 fps.

If you have long clips audio will go out of sync. Very short clips wont be noticable.

If you dont want the audio, AME is fine.

I would go for Shutter Encoder.

[Michael Grenadier]

does shutter transcode directly to prores?  That's a big plus for me.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Yes, Michael. but it's the FFMPEG flavor, but seems to work fine.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Michael Grenadier]

another program to learn...  although "seems" makes me nervous...