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Electromen wrote on 4/12/2004, 7:12 PM
Go to
File
Project Properties
Click Modify Template Defaults
Set frame rate to 24,000 (Film)
OK

mvmkr wrote on 4/12/2004, 7:59 PM
Oh sweet, thanks. Only trouble now is, how do I make it so that the video plays at 24 fps because when I export it via DV NTSC compression, it still seems like its playing at 30 fps. I need it to look hollywood film framerate. How do I export it so its like that?
Chienworks wrote on 4/13/2004, 3:25 AM
Well, you can't really do this. NTSC DV will always play at 29.97fps because that's just what NTSC is. Maybe you could encode to MPEG-2 at 24fps instead.
Electromen wrote on 4/13/2004, 2:56 PM
Only way I see is to leave it uncompressed
This probably doesn't help you, but if it does:

Set Project Properties to 24,000 when you start out
Make Move, save to hard drive
in Template select Template default (uncompressed)

Chienworks,
Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like Vegas 4.0 will do it.



Chienworks wrote on 4/14/2004, 8:46 AM
Yes, Vegas can do this. However, it's now a 23.976fps DV file and is no long strictly NTSC.

Also, please keep in mind that 29.97 vs. 24fps is only the tiniest part of the difference between the "video look" and the "film look". Making something look like film has a whole lot more to do with lighting, contrast, color saturation, resolution, camera motion, shutter speed, etc. than it has to do with frame rate. Converting 29.97fps video to 24fps is going to look like video, not film. It's going to look like choppy video.
Electromen wrote on 4/14/2004, 1:44 PM
You da man Chein
mvmkr wrote on 4/14/2004, 2:58 PM
Thanks so much everyone, this has been really helpful. I guess I'll go work on the contrast, lighting, etc. instead of wasting hours upon hours of messing with the framerate lol. Again, thanks.