Transfer of Super8 JPEG image sequence to movie

sspeed wrote on 10/3/2012, 11:41 AM

I just had our old Super8 film converted to digital.

The place I brought it to used a Sniper HD-Pro and it looks great, or at least way better than what we had.

The frame by frame scans were provided back to me in JPEG image sequence. The files are named with NTSC-HD_30_fps in them, which I assume means somewhere the sequence is set for 30fps?

I've tried importing them in to Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0c, but I keep getting a 29.97 fps rate, which makes the movies 2:00 vs their original 3:20.

I tried to follow advice I saw from searching other posts and set the project properties, but I only have 15, 25 and 29.97 as framerate options when I import and also in the properties. It also looks rather interlaced, but I guess I didn't follow the other advice yet as I was trying to get framerate right.

Why do I have no 18fps as a framerate option and do I need to set the header in the jpeg sequence somewhere like you suggested in the AVI sequence?

Comments

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/3/2012, 1:11 PM

In 12, you can just type in 18.00 and it will import at 18 frames per second, it's not exclusive to the drop downs, they're just the commonly used ones. I'm assuming this is the case in 9 as well, but I could be mistaken.

(also, you might want to post Movie Studio questions in the Movie Studio forum so you can make sure you're getting responses that are accurate to your software.)

Hope that helps.

Dave

sspeed wrote on 10/3/2012, 1:17 PM

Sheesh, typing in 18 worked, thank you! Now I just need to follow the progressive etc stuff that johnmeyer wrote.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/3/2012, 3:13 PM

ya, if you're working with progressive frames, you need to make sure it's being seen as progressive and your project should be as well.

Dave