How to change the timeline frame rate to 23.976 FPS

tvdias wrote on 2/21/2003, 9:30 AM

I opened an MPEG encoded at 23.976 FPS in DVD A. The total length is shown as 01:45:26:20, but the frame counter on the timeline shows the last frame at 01:26:19:02. I don't see any way to set the FPS rate to make the frame counter display the correct values.

Vern

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Snash wrote on 2/21/2003, 11:00 AM

I've had the same problem. The only way to make it work (As far as i know) is to encode it again.
DVD's has to be 25 or 29 frames a sec, you can't have 23,976. So you have to convert the movie to MPEG2 PAL or NTSC with 25 or 29 frames per seconds..

www.vcdhelp.com should help you acomplish this.

tvdias wrote on 2/21/2003, 1:06 PM

Snash, don't take this personally, but

No way am I going to take the quality hit of re-encoding an MPEG file. I am trying to create a quality product here and we seem to have a semi-brain dead program. I bought VV4 and DVD A based on my positive experiences with VV3 and I am not liking what I see.

BTW, as long as you don't touch anything, you can author a DVD with a 23.976 frame rate. Just don't try to do anything, don't try to add chapters, don't try to set an entry point, don't touch it. Just import the files and go.

Vern

videoman69 wrote on 2/21/2003, 1:45 PM

How do you do this? I have been trying for days with VV4 and DVD-A
to do this. All my results have looked horrible. No audio sync.
All the files I have fed DVD-A want to be re-rendered to 29.97.
Please enlighten the masses.
Thanks

johnpete wrote on 2/21/2003, 3:18 PM

That's an odd frame rate. What is it used for?

John

tvdias wrote on 2/21/2003, 3:26 PM

IVTC = Inverse Telecine and it's only used for just about every DVD available that originated on and was transferred from film. ;)

It saves a ton of DVD space and carries flags to tell the DVD player how to apply the 3:2 pulldown to convert film's 24 FPS to video's 30 FPS (approximate #'s)

P.S. It apparently can't be done. If you require anything but 25 or 30 FPS, you need a different and more capable product.

Vern

johnpete wrote on 2/21/2003, 3:40 PM

Interesting....

Can DV videos by done at that frame rate? Still images?

I have other tools besides DVD-A.

John

SonyEPM wrote on 2/26/2003, 8:47 AM

So you shot a movie, transferred it to tape @29.97, ran an inverse telecine on the master, and are now needing to make a 23.976 DVD for commercial duplication...is this correct?