Premiere Pro not allowing slow motion in timeline

[jamesk35412907]

I made the 23.976fps sequence but when I put my higher frame rate clips like 120fps in the timeline, it plays normal & doesn't stutter or slow down in the preview window. Every clip is playing at normal speed even though the frame rates are different. I don't know how to fix this. I'll export 120fps clips in a 23.976 timeline & it plays at 120fps, not 23.976 even though the timeline is 23.976. I can't do slow motion video.

If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it.

[Carlos Ziade]

Can you please send screenshots of your sequence settings after dropping the 120fps footage into the timeline ?

Can you share screenshots of your export settings ? especially the frame rate settings under Video ?

[R Neil Haugen]

You may need to go to the clips, preferably in a bin before putting them on a sequence,  right-click and Modify/ Interpret Media or whatever the exact wording is, and give it the frame-rate you wish it to be shown as.

Once on a timeline you would need to select the clip or clips and do the same thing. Remember that you can select multiple clips at once.

Neil

[Carlos Ziade]

and make sure when dropping your 120fps to the 23.976 sequence, if a message pops up asking whether

you wanna keep the sequence settings or change them to match the clip, choose keep settings (keep them at 23.976)

[R Neil Haugen]

Good catch there Carlos!

[Carlos Ziade]

Tx Neil !

[jamesk35412907]

My sequence settings are at 23.976 fps. The clip is 120 fps. When I click info, it says my 120 fps is 23.976 when it should be 120 fps. I thought once you make a sequence that is 23.976, anything that has a higher frame rate will slow down to match the sequence but mine isn't doing that. I'm on the latest version of premiere, I can't find anyone else having this problem but me

[R Neil Haugen]

Did you try the suggestion to Modify/Interpret and set the speed?

Neil

[jamesk35412907]

When I try to do that, Interpret footage is grayed out & I can't click on it

[Carlos Ziade]

Try to right click on the clip in the Project Panel and go to Modify from there ...

Try Neil's suggestion first..

Is your footage from RED ? Red footage is tricky, can you please try to tell

us about the Recorded Frame Rate of your footage ?

[jamesk35412907]

My footage isn't RED, it's footage from a Sony A7 III. I have recorded frame rates of 24fps, 30fps & 120fps. I'm exporting everything at 24 fps for YouTube.

[Kestrin_Pantera]

hi! 8 years-ish later, I'm having the same problem. When I right click "Modify" and "interpret footage" and then drag footage into the sequence, it plays fast/normal speed, as opposed to 120FPS

[Kestrin_Pantera]

 

[Kestrin_Pantera]

Not sure who is getting nudges about this so putting here as well- "Modfy->Interpret footage" to be 120FPS while in the project browser window, then I dump it into a 24FPS sequence, but it's still playing fast, not displaying as slomo.

[Kestrin_Pantera]

 

[Carlos Ziade]

to add and clarify, is your footage converted by any way ?

we don't have enough info.. what did you use for shooting ?

can you send us the original footage properties ?

[jamesk35412907]

The camera I recorded in was a Sony a7 III. I recorded 24fps & 30fps in 4K & 120fps in 1080p. Nothing has been converted, it's footage straight from the SD Card. Should I use a different editing mode?

I used RED because of this youtube tutorial - Frame Rates EXPLAINED: How To Film & Edit Mixed Frame Rate Video In Premiere Pro - YouTube

if you skip to 5:20, you can see when he put the 30fps clip in the 24fps timeline, it lags cause of less frames which is what I'm trying to do. But when I drag mine in, it plays the same even though the framerates are different.

[Carlos Ziade]

Did you shoot in S&Q mode ?

[jamesk35412907]

What's s&q? I shot in the video mode on my camera.

[Carlos Ziade]

Oka please just take one of your 120fps footage, drag it from the project panel

to the new item icon at the lower right of the project panel, this will create a new

sequence based on your footage. go to sequence settings, let us know what timebase

frame rate you have. If it is 120fps, try to set it to 23.976fps and let us know what you get.

Then we will proceed to the export settings ...

[jamesk35412907]

I did exactly what you said & the time line changes but the video continues to play at normal speed & doesn't slow down.

[jamesk35412907]

I ended up calling adobe & they walked me through what I was doing wrong. Thanks for all the help on here, I really appreciate it. The problem has been solved.

[Carlos Ziade]

what was wrong ?

[jamesk35412907]

Apparently I was trying to modify the frames in the timeline when I

should’ve done it before I imported anything into the timeline. That’s why

the modify interpret footage was great out because it was already in the

timeline. If that doesn’t make sense I apologize for my terrible

explanation but the good news is I can now do slow-motion video editing

correctly.

Again thank you all for your help I really appreciate the quick responses.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 4:43 PM carlosz13485882 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Carlos Ziade]

Yeah that was what Neil and me were trying to tell you to do, to interprete

the footage from the project panel ... anyway its great your issue has been

solved ! No problem we are here to help