by Zarxrax » Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:44 pm
As everyone knows, Premiere is incapable of outputting to 23.976 fps for whatever reason. Now I just happened to have an idea that could possibly let us get around that. This is just theory at the moment, I havent actually done any testing or whatnot.
Now, lets suppose you are editing some 23.976 fps footage, and you got your project settings set for 23.98 fps. Now you continue and finish your video like this, until its time to export. Now, when you go to export, instead of exporting to 23.98 fps, what if you were to export at 29.97 fps?
I am assuming that premiere would simply render your video as if it were 23.98 fps, but duplicate every 5th frame to get it to 29.97. Now this could be run through decomb in order to remove the duplicates, leaving you with a 23.976 fps video stream.
Does this sound right or what? The only problem I can forsee is the possibility that Premiere might calculate your keyframes and stuff according to a 29.97fps timebase, which could make it choppy after you use decomb. However I doubt it would do this, since that should be effected by your project settings, not your export settings, correct? I really hope I'm onto something here...