How do I create a 120 fps sequence? 60p seems to be the limit...

[Peter J Kovacs]

Hi, I want to create a premiere sequence that's 120 fps but when I create a new sequence the limit seems to be 60p. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Drag clip into the New Item icon.

You can create a 120 fps sequence you cannot export as such.

[Peter J Kovacs]

Hi, I understand you can drag the clip to do this... but is it possible to create a higher framerate sequence without doing this?  Sometimes I just want to create a high framerate squence without a reference clip to create it with. Thanks.

[Graeme Bull]

That is actually a really good question! I checked all over and can't see a way to do it, I'm guessing it isn't possible outside of being able to make a preset via the underlying code in Premiere. I would have guessed these presets are createable in XML perhaps and the app loads those in. That might the next direction I would look. Outside of that, the only way to make one is to have a clip that is 120 and drag that in... Weird.

[ThioJoe]

@Graeme Bull This is an old thread but I just figured this out myself, so I'll post it for anyone coming from Google.

I wanted to create a 1000 fps sequence for example (don't ask lol), but this would work with any framerate such as 120.

I found the easiest way is to create a sequence preset, then edit the sequence preset file manually, then create a sequence using that.

1. Go to create a new sequence using the usual window, and set all the other options you want the sequence to have besides the framerate. Probably set the "Editing Mode" to "Custom".

2. In the sequence creation window, hit 'Save Preset', name it whatever, in my case I called it "1000 FPS Sequence".

3. Look for the new ".sqpreset" file that was created in your profile settings, like in my case since I set the editing mode to 'Custom', it was located at: 

D:\Users\WhateverUsername\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\25.0\Profile-Joe\Settings\Custom\1000 FPS Sequence.sqpreset

4. Find the "<VideoFrameRate>" tag which will look like this with a big number in the middle:

<VideoFrameRate>4237833600</VideoFrameRate>

The number is actually the number of "ticks" per frame. From the extendscript documentation, there are 254016000000 ticks per second. So in that example if you divide 254016000000 by 4237833600 you'd see that value corresponds to 60 fps (or more precisely 59.94). To get the amount of ticks for a desired framerate, simply divide 254016000000 by whatever desired framerate.

So if you wanted 120 fps you'd do:

254016000000 ÷ 120 = 2116800000

Then just put that result in like this and save the file.

<VideoFrameRate>2116800000</VideoFrameRate>

Close and re-open premiere if it's still open, and now it will automatically recognize it as having the right framerate. Like in my case 1000 fps:

[Ann Bens]

No, the only way is to force the setting onto the sequence by dragging the clip.