Suppose you have footage shot at one rate e.g. 25 fps and require it to be played at a different rate e.g. 24 fps. Possible reasons: you shot at 25 fps and want to edit on a 24 fps timeline, or maybe want a crude but quick way to alter footage duration or to speed up or slow down the action that was shot. The process below lets you alter the metadata in video files so that they play back at a different fps to that at which they were shot. That’s all it does, there’s no frame interpolation etc involved here. This is a destructive process, the selected files have their metadata altered, to specify the required playback rate.
- Mac: Cinema Tools
- Cinema Tools:
- File > Batch Conform
- Browse to folder containing rushes & select files
- Clickthe [Open] button
- [Batch Conform] Dialog appears. Specify the required fps.
- Click the [Conform] button.
- (The selected files have now been altered)
I’ve only just discovered Cinema Tools here, thanks to Den Lennie’s Creating the Film Look course, and quite clearly have only just scratched the surface. Looks like its main function is to serve as a database for translating digitaal edits into film edits. Not something I’ve been involved in thus far.