Hi All,
I'm having some trouble with frame rate conversion.
I'm preparing footage for my editor. I received a ~45 min .avi clip from the field that I converted to ProRes with no frame conversion (our editor works with FCP, so he wants all of his footage to be ProRes). I put one version into compressor, which I know can successfully process frame rate conversion without creating noticeable problems with the file. The downside to using compressor is that it takes around 40 hours to frame convert a file of this size using the hardware we have.
So, I wanted to simultaneously run a conversion in Media Encoder, because it's much faster in my experience. I'm running it on a separate workstation with this hardware and software:
Macbook Pro
2.6 GHz processor, 8GB DDR3
OSX 10.9.1
Media Encoder CS6 6.0.0.382 (64 bit)
I'm trying to convert a 45 minute interview from 29.97fps to 25fps. I can successfully process the file into something that I can open and watch. The audio sounds fine, and the file is the exact same length in minutes and seconds, but the footage sort of dances around in my media player, and there are thin black lines around the edges of the frame.
Can anyone tell me what the proper settings for this kind of conversion are?
Thanks for your help!
In my experience, Adobe tools just do not do a satisfactory job of frame rate conversion. It's why myself and a couple other forums regulars spent literally several hundred man hours developing the dv2Film process a few years back.
It's a PC only option, though.