Frame Rates EXPLAINED - How To Edit With Different Frame Rates | Momentum Productions 

Great job explaining this. Ive seen others take 15 minutes to explain and still walk away not understanding. You explained it perfectly so one can easily duplicate the process. And great tip on the audio recording that would have slipped my mind.

I'm still a little confused. I get the slomo part, but what if you have a 24p timeline and a 60p clip that you want to play back at normal speed (not slowmo) and if you're using Plural Eyes and editing in multicam in FCPx, show to resolve the issues of variable frame rate clips (like a screencast clip) and audio drift issues (if you didn't know to record the audio at the same frame rate as the camera during pre-production setup)?

I always come back to this video

What can be done on music videos when musicians are playing parts of the same song but their videos are different frame rates. Altering the duration of their videos is not an option or we would no longer be in sync. What happens when exporting the final project say at 30 fps? Then there is the issue of audio drift.

Such a great explanation... well done!

Deserves more views this. Thanks a bunch man, really really simple explanation and just comes down to percentage. I love it. 👏👏👏

In Edius you can simply in properties of the clip set what is your desired frame rate and it will automatically slow down/speed up video to set it right... I work at national television quality control check for outsourced video contributors (documentaries, series, reportages...) and I can tell you that wrong framerate converting is most common error for refusing materials... And people often argue with me that there editing software can work with any framerate and that we are stupid... But you clearly explained problem with different frameratea... Tnq

This was so well explained! And you didn't take long! And you had a good tip about audio! I loved it, and you earned a subscriber

In FCPX - Can't you can drop it all into a 24fps timeline (24, 60 & 120) and it will all play in real time. To slow down a clip (if the clip is above 24fps), you can just drop it in the same 24fps timeline, highlight the clip and just hit "Automatic Speed" and it does all the calculation for you.

Thanks a lot , your video explained and solved all my problems

thank youu, searching so long for this

That was so easy to understand that it seem too good to be true. Thanks Man

Well explained thanks a lot. Now I’m comfortable doing the next video shoot 🙌🏼

How do we know the slomo rate? Is there any calculation for that? 60fps to realtime 24fps - 2X 120fps to realtime 24fps - ? 240fps to realtime 24 fps - ?

If I want to shoot fast moving objeccts such as cars at lets say 250fps, how do I bring it into 30fps timeline?

Thanks a lot I tried To Match 24Fps clip to 30fps n Did the calculation got 1.25 n sped up clip 24fps to 1.25 n playback/Rendering was smooth

I had always wondered how to mix frame rates. Thanks for the awesome vid!

Hello. Thank you for your video. It really helped a lot. However, I still have a question and I hope you know the answer to it as well. So here is the situation. I recorded a piano performance in two different cameras. One was set to 24fps and one was set to 59.98fps. The audio was recorded separately with another. device. The problem is that audio would sync perfectly with 24fps but not 59.98fps (of course). But if I adapt your method and retime 59.98, it would be extremely slow! Do you have any solution to this?? I usually have to use footages that are 29.97 and 24fps but I don't have much problem when I try to combine this and use them together in a FCPX project. Sorry for so many questions. I've been trying to find answer to this for a while and I thought you would know! Thank you.

Wow. Thank you so much for this video. It's really helpful!

Great video mate. Been look for this info for ages. Just getting to videography myself

This is the video. Good work and thank you

so im just finding this now, i have a question which is really bugging me! I use 3 Cameras - 2 Go Pro's & my iphone. go pros are at 59.94 and the iphone is dead 60 (FPS) is there any way i can change frame rate to match it all up? using final cut multicam and i just all goes out of time TIA

So basically if I shoot 60fps and want to slow down for a few seconds then speed up the footage for a few more seconds on a 24fps timeline, would I have to automate the footage to be 80% for regular speed then 40% for the slow mo look?

Thanks bro I was seRching this kind of video

THX BRO!!!

very good...very clear and concise

Very useful, thank you.

This is so nice explained! You did spoke about editing audio and video, but wanted to ask you this : So, we have a 24fps timeline, the audio is for 24fps, but there is footage that is recorded at 24fps and let's say 60fps ( maybe later you can use the same footage for b-roll and other thing where you need audio ) ...is that possible? Thanks

Thank you dude😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️

I'm still confused, hope someone can enlighten me! My logic is telling me that a 1 second 60fps clip placed in a 24 fps timeline will become a 2.5 second clip (60/24 = 2.5), and therefore setting it to play at 0.8 speed will make it even longer / slower? Where am I going wrong?

Deer Lod thanks for this bro!!!!!

thank you for this!

O shoot with multiple cameras, formats and fps. Because my cameras are all different. So editing multicam footage in blender is a hell

I have two clips one at 23.9 and one at 24 the audio does not match how can I fix it? asking for a friend

hi. how can i put 60fps footage into 30fps timeline without slowing it down. i mean i want it to play back at normal speed with 60fps smooth in 30fps cinematic timeline

What about 59.97 and 60 fps in one 60 fps timeline? is it possible? or maybe it's better to make one timelien 59.97 fps and throw 60 fps files into it

How do you shoot audio with diferent framerate than video?

If you bring down 60fps or up to real time on that 24 timeline, will the motion blur/shutter speed be terrible if panning?

is it still working if I speed up a 23,976fps clip 1,0427% to fit it with a 25fps video to avoid problems in the exported version or is this difference to small?

Hi Josh, please can you do an audio frame rate tutorial asap, please and thanks?

I guess i’ m missing something, because I want to have them mixed without slowing down. I can imagine that’ s impossible without jitter. So in fact no solution for that. I know that in broadcasting in Europe (25 Hz), movies are played back faster than in the US, because translation from 24 to 25 fps is not possible without jitter. I notice that all the time. A movie with a duration of let’s say 2 hours will be broadcasted in 6 minutes less time, so in 1 hour and 54 minutes. Most of the time there is not even pitch correction for the sound, so you can hear all tones a bit higher.

Did u change anything in the first clip. It was still showing 100 %.

I'm still confused. How is 40% half-time and 80% real time?

I tried it many times. I changed my 60fps clip to 80% but it still looks choppy. It looks horrible and I don't know what to do. Why is it not working? I don't understand it as I did everything like he told me. Can anybody please help me?

Ok. I have a challenging project and would like to hear your opinion. I have tons of footage most of them are interviews and they are recorded on a lot of different devices from older phones to black-magic in 4k. I have resolutions from 360p or even 240 to 4k.Frame rates 15, 23,9 24 25 fps (zoom recordings) 29.9 fps 30 fps 60fps. Somehow I need to bring all this into one final video without any drifting audio and hopefully not very noticeable jittering video. What would be your recommendation ?:)

Thanks

If you want to keep it simple, shutter speed rule of doubling your frame rate helps with smoothness at different FPS rates. I play all my mixed fps rate clips @ 100% and people can't tell which is which, even with audio.

24 with shutter 48 on my fuji looks to glittery, jerky . Even with weebill s is not smooth

Hit the Automatic speed function.. 1 click? Conforms any speed to your time-line. Crazy doing all this wasted math

the "slowed" footage looked way more choppy than when you just let it play at 60fps

It is confusing, but I assure all viewers, watch this video a few times and you will get it 😂

missed your tutorial man... thirst for knowledge....

Too many unnecessary words, and unpleasant mugshot

i don't understand about the half speed. How is 40% half speed and 80% real time? 40% of 60 is 24.

Your explanation at the beginning is very confusing. What do you mean at the 1:00 mark when you say "or you can double it up to 80% in order to play back at 24 fps?" 80% of 60 is 48. If you slow it down 40% you get 24 fps. Where does this 80% come in? I've watched numerous videos on this subject and never heard that. Thanks.

Hi! Can I create one video in Adobe Premiere Pro that will combine 1080 60fps videos and 4K 30fps videos, and that all parts are in real-time? Or in that combination, 1080 60fps must be in slow motion? Thanks! :)

I have a question: I have a music video shot and edited in 60fps. I want to render it in 24fps, I dont mind choppiness. But when I render the project, the video and audio are out of sync, the audio is always ahead of the lips movement. How to fix this?

Dude....this was really good and so well explained too. Never thought about doing the actual calculator thing but makes sense. Appreciate it.

I usually shoot 4K 60 fps but my 2nd camera shoots 30 fps and for some reason when I import them both in timeline I don’t have any visible jump in quality or speed . I can’t see an issue at all nor do I have an issue with rendering

i had 59.97 footage from a pocket 3 as bts material, i recorded at 29.97, i edited ev in a 59.97 fps time line, so my solution was making a 29.97 time line and changing it to optic flow, is this the best way?

When you say you are trying to edit in 24 per second time line and you want to make sure that your audio is shot or set to 24 frame/sec, does that mean you want the video which also records the audio obviously to be set in 24 sec/frame right? The audio doesn't have it's separate time frame right? Just wanted to clarify as I was getting confused ...

Thank you for the info Josh, really helpful. I'm planning on shooting enterviews with 2 differents cameras, one shooting 25p and the other 30p. The audio will be recorded externally. Will everything workout well on a 24p timeline when I convert the speeds to match the timeline? Will the audio sync up too? Thank yoi!

Great video. If there isn't already one out there, I think you just gave some developers an idea for a frame rate calculating app.

Heya just wondering, why is it that the footage still looks choppy even at 80%.

I don't get it. If i double the slow mo speed from 40% to 80% (shot 60fps, edit on 24fps timeline), it is STILL slowed. It will play back smoothly, but its still slowed, isn't it?

I have no interest in delivering a 24p video to a client for broadcast tv. If I have a mix of 24 and 30p clips, is there a problem just exporting at 30p even with 24p material interspersed with 30p material?

I been through a couple of videos and this was the one!🙏🏽

Clip Frame Rate Divided / by the Sequence Frame Rate = Percentage of the SlowMo

Are you saying that you must convert all to slow motion? That doesn't seem practical for most videos.

This will not work if you do not want your footage to look slow-motion right?

I am sorry but your tutorial is misguiding. first of all, you don't have to manually calculate anything for frame rate conforming. select your higher frame rate clip on your 24p or lower frame rate timeline and choose "Automatic speed" from the retiming options menu. FCPX will automatically calculate and slow down the clip to match your project timeline. that's it. and then slowing down a 60p footage to match a 24p project timeline is not exactly playing the clip in real-time, yes you solve the choppiness problem but it is because now the clip is being played at slow-motion and slow-motion is not "real-time". a 60p recorded footage is played at a real-time speed only if it is played at 60p. so is true about any other frame rate. real-time playback is playback at native recorded frame rate. if you want to have 60p played real-time on a 24p timeline you have to drop 36 frames from each second of the footage, hence the choppiness of action and that's where rate conforming and frame sampling comes into play. always record at your intended project frame rate if you want "real-time" playback of the footage you are recording. anything higher than that is for "slow-motion" or you'll have to deal with rate conforming which will never look as smooth as native recording.

please , what happens if i slow down (50% example) of a 60fps clip in a 60fps timeline??? do you loss any quality?

Thank you, this is really helpful. You mention shooting audio - unfortunately I've already shot hours of audio footage with two cameras set to different frame rates... (24fps and 30fps). I there anything I can do post production to be able to use both camera angles? Needless to say I wish I watched this before shooting!

Subscribed.. your video is a new knowledge for me. Thanks sir. From India Kukiland

Hi Wonder if you can show in Premiere Pro in future please

Do you always playback in real time is 80%?

Great video. Thanks. I have a doubt though. Lets say I wanted to edit 24fps, and 120fps clip on a 24fps timeline. I wanted to play certain parts of the 120fps video at 100% and certain parts at 20% like speed ramping. will it make the video choppy?

The real question is how to increase frames

You mentioned audio has to be at the same "frame rate" as the video. Audio is not measured by frame rate, it is measured by sample rate, 48Khz, 41Khz, etc,

Great explanation. Thank you so much for this

Hello. I am editing an interview which unfortunately is shot at 60 fps on one camera and 30 fps on the other. What is the best way to approach the edit considering there is a lot of speaking involved? Thank You

thanks so much :)

Audio set to 24 fps?

Confused.. what do you mean by real-time? If you could explain what you mean by that.. also can or did you do tutorial of taking a 60fps clips and putting it in a 24p timeline and how that work? Is is alternative to slowing 60fps footage?

Hi Josh. I usually drop my different frame rate clips into the timeline, then Select All, and choose Automatic timing so I don't have to do calculations. Works pretty well. Any reason not to do this?

For the life of me, I can't figure this out. lol, I wonder if it's my program. I shoot 1/50 shutter speed 24 fps and when I want a slow-motion clip I shoot 1/125 shutter speed and 60 fps. It's always choppy when I slow down the 60fps to 40%. I use Filmora and at normal speed, it's 1.000 in the settings (not in %) so I slow it down to .400 and it's choppy. I even try .600 and .800 it's all choppy. LMAO (Sony A6000)

Hi, I have a question : I make videos with DJI products who record videos in 29,97 FPS (even if it's written 30 FPS on the camera). The file after is in 29,97 FPS. If I want to post those videos on RU-vid, do I must create a project on FinalCut in 30 FPS or 29,97 FPS and put all the 29,97 FPS in that project, please ? I really don't know if it's not good to open a 30 FPS project for putting 29,97 FPS videos inside for editing. And what about RU-vid ? Thanks

Hi, example: import my video 60 fps edit speed for slow motion, export final video in 24fps or 60fps?

24/60=0.4 (0.4*60=24) so if u want slow down 60fps in 24 timeline use 40% for speed/duration . Its a premier pro calculation. If you want speed up the slowmo use 100% for speed/duration. Timelime/footage fps=%

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If your deliverable is to RU-vid, is there an advantage to making the deliverable 24 FPS?

I am doing a research project in which I want to freeze the LCD display of my computer for 10 seconds. I dont want computer to refresh the display. Is there away to do it? This may be not be right channel to ask this apologies for spam

Super helpful. Great explanation. Thank you very much.

I finally understood it! Thank you so much!

Couldn't you just select the clip and hit Automatic Speed to confirm it to the Project's frame rate?

you don't have to do any math, you literally just select "automatic speed" in that same column

OK Big question here.... Using powerdirector 365 and a Canon 90D... Shooting slow motion with a Canon 90D @119.whaterver when I import the file into my PC it says that the file is 29fps even though the actual video is 119fps for whatever reason. Now when i drop that into powerdirector 365 where i have the standard set to 24fps as a project.... it says that there is going to be issues because of the different frame rate. So I went to the video speed disigner and the clip was 1:49:11 so I took and made the new duration of the total length(speed) of the video to 1:37:08 which would be 80 percent slower which should make this video clip now fit into the 24fps zone. Did I do this correctly? Probably will never get an answer but it sure would be nice. It would also be nice if powerdirector would just add percentages like your software does....

hello there! thanks for this so informative video..:) i'd like to ask though, supposing i'm recording in 23.98 fps during daytime and my VND wont be able to compensate at 48-50 shutter speed; is by doubling the shutter speed won't ruin shot, let's say 96-100 SS, 192-200.. and so on..

A little bit of misinformation there. Slowed down at 80% does NOT result in a 60 fps clip playing back at "normal" speed on a 24 fps timeline. You are still slowing down the video by 20% so it is not playing back at normal speed.

So... what if we don't want the video to play at 40% speed, or whatever... what if we want it to play at its real-time speed? Forgive me, if I am missing something. I am new to all of this but, seems to me that, if we slow down the footage, then that footage is essentially playing back in slow-mo, of varying degrees, based upon what the footage was shot in - calculated against the chosen frame rate for the project. So, something shot in 60fps will demonstrate slower movement than something shot in 30fps, which will be slower than something shot at 24fps when all are dropped into a 24fps timeline... with only the 24fps clip playing at its "normal" speed of movement. Yes? Or am I missing something?