Timing and playback speeds of frame-rates

[prodigal2]

Personally I would ask your content folks to send you a quicktime uncompressed at 30fps version of the file and then encode into AIC and hold onto the uncompressed version. That will solve 99% of problems like this, also it is always good to get content sent as uncompressed unless your content providers are house trained and encode correctly in AIC.

If you cannot get the file uncompressed, then go the route Todd suggests, not forgetting to De-interlace the file before encoding to uncompressed.

BTW catalyst media playback is built upon quicktime, only the capture card side of things bypasses quicktime. But Catalyst is not good bedfellows with MPEG based content because it not frame absolute, Richard could possibly elaborate this.

Phil

Philip G Haynes
Live Visual Design and Direction

[samsc]

if movie was shot at 23.98 - and post-produced at that frame rate -

you really cant do any frame rate conversions - they wont work-

changing the frame rate will just duplicate frames - or do something horrible to the content like frame blend.
Frame blending will alter the content in a way which might be completely unacceptable to client-

Personally I would ask your content folks to send you a quicktime uncompressed at 30fps version of the file and then encode into AIC and hold onto the uncompressed version. That will solve 99% of problems like this, also it is always good to get content sent as uncompressed unless your content providers are house trained and encode correctly in AIC.

If you cannot get the file uncompressed, then go the route Todd suggests, not forgetting to De-interlace the file before encoding to uncompressed.

BTW catalyst media playback is built upon quicktime, only the capture card side of things bypasses quicktime. But Catalyst is not good bedfellows with MPEG based content because it not frame absolute, Richard could possibly elaborate this.

Phil

Philip G Haynes
Live Visual Design and Direction