Frame Rate Converter

69 Comments

Assaf

7 years ago

This vidoe has been upload in 2007. is this still relevent to this year? because after effects has been changed a lot since then and also the computers. they are much more faster and much more capable.

Foley

7 years ago

Hi Andrew, I just figured out how to fix my problem in my previous post. I had to relink the pick whips to both "Actual Source Frame Rate" and "Target Frame Rate" to make it works again. Anyway, Thanks for the preset!

Foley

7 years ago

Thanks for your tutorial.

I am using After Effects CC and I am trying to convert my source footage from 60fps to 29.97fps for my project.

I followed your video and changed the numbers for "Actual Source Frame Rate" and "Target Frame Rate". However, The slider for "Speed" remains 100. Can you tell me why this happens? Thanks

Bill

9 years ago

Well I guess we all know that AndrewKramer_FrameRate_Converter.ffx will not work in ver. 2015.3 when I run file I receive this error.
Can't import file "AndrewKramer_FrameRate_Converter.ffx":unsupported filetype or extension. (0::1)
Does anyone know if Andrew has made an update of this file Or a work around?

Leon Frohnert

9 years ago

Do you guys know how to convert a 1080/25 footage to 1080/30?
I mean, a way to get a smooth finish... ?

szepesg

9 years ago

Is there any chance that I can change from 23.976 to 25? Because higher values than the original do not work.
Thank You.
Best regards,

G.Sz.

David

9 years ago

Thanks again for this trusty dusty tutorial and FFX preset. I just dug it out again, and found that for some reason in CC2015 the math being done between "actual / desired" frame rates, grinds my system to a near halt- unusably so. By just letting it do the math, making a fresh 'timewarp' effect and plugging in the calculated number [ in my case 80.01, for converting a 23.98 file to 29.97] got around the problem. I'm nerdily fascinated that that simple expression math could bog down a system like that...

Browny

9 years ago

Does anyone know if this works also in premier pro> or it was just made for after effect?

David

9 years ago

Browny. You know, I ended up just doing the same methodology in Premiere instead of AE. Would be a pain if you had a tonne of clips. I was actually getting better results with CC's "Optical Flow" speed effect option than the equivalent in AE. The only difference in method is that I made a duplicate of the clip in the bin, kept its framerate intact and used its audio under the frame rate adjusted copy with speed effect.

justfaced

9 years ago

Avdshare Video Converter will take change MP4 file frame rate as an example and it can also serve to change AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MXF, XAVC, ProRes, MPG, AVI, FLV, MOV, WMV, MKV and almost all video format frame rates

10 years ago

Thank you for this awesome tutorial. I rendered my whole file and it worked perfectly, but there is no sound, is there any way to get my sound converted with the correct pitch as well? Kind Regars

Joel

11 years ago

Hi, When I try to convert from 30 to 24, I interpret the footage @ 24, drag it into a new comp, add the preset and it defaults to an Actual of 23.97 and a target of 30 (which is obviously the OPPOSITE of what I want. So I go to set the Actual to 30 (which it is) and when I enter it, the target also changes to 30!!

So I set the Target to 24 and.... it changes the Actual to 24!!! They've become linked somehow, and if i set either, it changes both the Actual and Target to the same number. What am I doing wrong here?? cheers

tayor

11 years ago

Any luck figuring this issue?

William Henley

11 years ago

Same issue. I learned NOT to hit enter, but to click out of the frame area. Then it takes it

10 years ago

Just press the "reset" button on top of either of those, and it should unlink.

Jansef James

13 years ago

Gosh.. I feel like flying.
I am new to VFX.. and these tutorials are so easy to follow.
And I like Andrew's Jokes

I think I am falling for the guy

chris kag

14 years ago

This does not work for me. I followed what was shown in the tutorial (tried a 24p to 30p) and it actually made it go at 1fps to 3.xxxfps a second using this.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not compatible with CS5.5

rose

13 years ago

same here!

Michelle Godoy

14 years ago

Where can I get the Andrew Kramer FC plugin ? I cant seem to find it

Thank you!

Michelle

Rebel28

14 years ago

It's here:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/frame_rate_converter/

Click on the "Project Files" button

browny

9 years ago

You can find it just beside this video click on the download project filled, and it comes with whole bunch of other plugins and the FC is one of it.

by the way does anyone knows if i can use this in premier as well or if there is a premier version ?

Luis Garcia

14 years ago

Hey i tried to convert a video which is about six minutes long, to 29.97 to 23.976 but once i did that, It all took forever to render but when i try to scrub it, it'll take another long time to render. Any way to fix this.

Caio

11 years ago

The same happens for me,it's asking for 59hours to render a 10min scene! HELP!

Jedi

14 years ago

This tutorial is great(it actually saved my live ^_^), but I have one question...

I have to convert my movie, recorded in 20fps, to 24fps. And becouse, this is an actual film, not just one scene, there are obviously cuts between the scenes.

So is the "pixel motion" method good in this case? I mean, how will AE create inbetween frame, from two frames, that have nothing to do with one another?

Chad

14 years ago

Is there any way for you to cut the movie and convert the frame rate in individual scenes? i.e. cut it and export each scene in FCP and import them into AE, then converting the frame rate of each one?

Tony

14 years ago

How do I get the Andrew Kramer frame Rate Convector plugin.

Cheers

Tony

Mike

14 years ago

In the presets tab under tutorials

khaldounkoko

15 years ago

hy andrew nice tuto

Nick

15 years ago

PLEASE HELP

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT FRAME RATE TO CONVERT IT TO? BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT I DO, MY FOOTAGE LAGS DURING PLAYBACK. PLEASE RESPOND PLEASE

Mohammed Gaily

14 years ago

Please follow these guidelines:
1 - When you import any video file format to any project list click the right mouse button on the file. (on THE LIST)
2 - After pressing the right mouse button on the file will show you the list, select the ones Interpret Footage. Waiting for the other menu and choose the option Main. You can Briefly press the button Ctrl F to summarize the previous steps, but all of this to consolidate the information

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3 - In the window that appeared Number shows the number of frames per second. You can change this number to get the number of frames appropriate for your system.

Good luck

Facundo

15 years ago

Hi,
what is the better way (broadcast) to convert a 24p (23,97) canon footage to 25 fps?

ade

15 years ago

@barry
to change from timecode to frames, just ctrl (click) on the time in the timeline windows
it will change to fram

nice tutorial andrew

Doodle

14 years ago

@ade, I'm a noob...cheers for responding to @barry...was very helpful.

Jakub

15 years ago

You probably won't believe it, but I just impressed a lady by my ability of frame converting, so.. obviously it has bigger potential than you thought...

Anyway, thanks for useful tool

K.A.S. ILLuzion

15 years ago

Thank You, Andrew! It's great tutorial. I watched it 4 times and at the end undertood all properly.
Thnx!

kokos

15 years ago

In most package can find the fps converter?
Thank you

Adam Schoales

16 years ago

Been trying to convert a PAL concert from a friend into NTSC and was wondering if anyone had any tips. After Effects would probably be too much since the concert is two hours but really am having trouble finding a good method... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Barry

16 years ago

Under composition settings how do you change from time code to frames and back again.

Boris

16 years ago

Hi Andrew,

first of all: Thx so much for all these grate tutorials you share with us. We would order more of your DVDÂ´s if they would translate into german.
But now IÂ´ve a question.
We are filming with our Canon EOS 5D Mark II and we would like to transfer 30p into 25p.
Is there any update for this tutorial so we can use it for AE CS4 ?!

Cheers again,

Boris

infamous

16 years ago

You dont want to know I have this film in 24FP canon format huge headache converting thank you Andy.

You save this entire project for loseless.

Kierra

16 years ago

I had to use this method on a 4 minute clip. It has been rendering for 4.5 hours and still has 90 minutes to go. Is this normal? There's not much motion so I used the "whole frames" method. Figured that was fastest. The blended frames method was rendering all night and still had 6 hours to go when I came in this morning. Thoughts?

Ryan McCormick

16 years ago

Just watched your clip on FPS conversion. It mentioned that the presets were available for download, but I can't find them. Where might they be??

I am trying to take a 1080i 59.94 flip and convert it to 50hz. Unfortunately when i drop it down i get audio sync issues and am madly trying to figure out a viable work around. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much

Sam

16 years ago

Hi Andrew
your tutorial is the greatest and easy to follow you are genius....

i have a problem i create the one base on your tut sparkle text
and when i export to avi or mov the result is not look the same that i made in After effect
it really look dead and bad result

need help
Sam

dan

16 years ago

this seems to work fine for me.

Can't recommend using it on >2 mins worth of footage though...it's taken over 8 hrs to render and is still going.

Antwon Burt

16 years ago

WOW this was amazing nice job you are the best ever thanks so much like seriously you are the best. anyone could ask for seriously amazing like wow thats sooo good like i will make you brownies and cookies. Thanks so much i am your biggest fan! you make me so happy like wow great job, love Antwon Burt.

Tristan Summers

16 years ago

Thanks Once Again Superstar. You saved my life again.

Was looking to use a 25p comp in a 30p comp without stuttering.

So if you just want to use the EXACT frames of footage OR A COMPOSITION you can use the same formula ( source rate/new rate*100) and apply the percentage to the TIME STRETCH.

Be better if After Effects let you do this more easily.

nb rotoing 25p footage for a 30p comp. Apparently really hard to shoot 30p in Uk as lights flicker due to 50hz/60hz voltage differences...

BrennFilm

16 years ago

Hi Andrew.
First... awesome job you are doing. I'm getting into AE thanks to you!
I have a problem with this tutorial though. It might be my problem, but I wanted to know if there are more people with this experience.
When I use your template to turn PAL footage into NTSC footage, it starts very well, but after 200 frames into the composition, things really slow down. Up to 5-8 seconds per frame.
Now I'm rendering a trailer which is about 1,5 minutes long, but it will take up to 8 hrs.
I tried different types of footage, but still the problem persists.
Now I tried just scaling and setting the interpret footage to NTSC and only use the timewarp... so not the slider "original" and "target" expressions... and voila... ten time faster.
So I'm not sure what that expression is doing, but it seems at my end that it slows things realy down, and all you have to do is do some math in the warp fields...

I thought I let you know.

Greetings. Stephan

chris

16 years ago

Great tutorial! I always learn so much from your site.

Question - the frame rate preset you have for download is not compatible with AE 6.5 because it was created in 7.0.

Any chance of getting one that works with 6.5?

Thanks!

Miguel Ortega

16 years ago

Will this work on Cs4? Anyone?

Roberto

16 years ago

Hello everyone forgive my English, I am Spanish and I have a problem,
program gives me the bugs with FrameRateWarp, I said that I have not, I
can download from any site?.
I could respond to someone it makes me much needed.
Thank you all and a greeting.

legobenj

16 years ago

Woah, Andrew can go back in time! At time 4:11, you can see he has the 3D falloff preset. You know, tutorial 80 that just came out...

Dory Breaux

17 years ago

E Lancelot:

No, because if you try to conform 29.976fps to 24 or 23.976fps, AE doesnt remove any frames, it simply makes the playback rate slower, so its technically the same effect as adding 30fps footage to a 24fps playback for the slowmo look.

Bottom line, AE doesnt change the source framerate, it changes the playback framerate and therefore the playback speed.

E Lancelot

17 years ago

Andrew Kramer, I've got some questions for you, my friend.

Couldn't you just drop some footage into a pre-made composition that already has the desired fps change?

Wouldn't the footage have to conform to the comp's frame rate?

Jozef

17 years ago

Can you please upgdate the preset for SC3

djaqib

17 years ago

hi andrew can you plz plz update the preset for CS3...i really need this tutorial plz or anyone else can tell how to convert pal clip to ntsc just a small clip of 10 sec i am not talkin about whole dvd

Francesco

17 years ago

O, great Andrew! Your people needs an updated version of thy preset!!!

Josh Okecho!

17 years ago

Hi Andrew, i really love your work. Very much!
Just wondering whether you are able to do some handson training to some friends of mine...(am talking business),
May be you can think of a holiday in a small African country called Uganda - probably next summer!...thats just a suggestion...am open to yours! I'll be grateful when u don't hang this up the wall. Ciao.

Josh Okecho!

17 years ago

Larry S. Evans II

17 years ago

@ Sean Harper, the frame rate is only a very small part of the "film look". I've been striving for similar results for many years, and the chief answer I get from pros and semi-pros is "first shoot like film". Film has a number of factors that make it look very different from video. The one's I hear most often are depth of field; "flatness" of the image, and film grain. AE produces a great film grain (if you can wait a week) or you can use the fast film grain tutorial here to get some of the look. Depth of field can be faked, but it's really best to try and shoot it if you can (your camera may need to go on "manual" mode to get at these settings). The flatness sort of follows along with using depth of field, in combination with some color grading. A lot of what you can get depends on the options your camera supports. Most consumer cameras made in the last ten years will give you some basic manual options like focus and aperture (f-stop). It takes some practice to get it right, and when you go off of auto you inevitably come up against issues with lighting and camera stability and a dozen other factors that weren't there before. But if you want a film look, you can get it with some work.

Larry S. Evans II

17 years ago

Sean Harper

17 years ago

Andrew, I really need help! Your tutorial may or may not have saved my projects but I'm not sure yet.

I'm trying to give my footage that film like look to them that 24p offers but my camera can film at only 30 fps or (60i) and I want to make the video look like a real film instead of this crappy backyard look that I have going. But after I finally exported and rendered it out with it set to 24frames per second it looked like nothing changed

What did I do wrong here?

Min Lee

17 years ago

Now...if you can convert 30FPS to like, let's say...300FPS, that'd be awesome haha. Cause that'd save me a lot of money.

This way I can record my friend jumping on a trampoline...in super slow motion!

Chase

17 years ago

Does the preset not work with CS3? Whenever I changed the target frame rate value, the actual frame rate value changed to the given value as well.

ambadas sapar

17 years ago

its Good toturials & Footages,
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David

17 years ago

this is such a big question these days with the need to remove pulldown on a lot of consumer cams recording in 24p, that i think a new elaborate tutorial for CS3 would be nice.

Andy

17 years ago

Hey, thanks for the tutorial, its fantastic. But the only question I have is this- What would the appropriate settings be to export/render the video? I converted my footage to 23.976 fps.

Thanks

Andres

17 years ago

THANK U ! VERY HELPFUL !

John

17 years ago

@ Jason: Most likely you've just placed the preset onto your clip. All of the effects are selected at that point, so any change you make to one changes the others, too. Just deselect the effects, then click again on one of the slider values to change it.

Jon

17 years ago

The problem is not with his preset, I just created the preset on my own and it crashes CS3. It appears to be a bug in CS3. So unless there is a workaround using alternate methods, he won't be releasing an updated preset that works in cs3.

Kim W

17 years ago

I'm looking for the preset for CS3 to. Please andrew give the updated preset.

IvÃƒÂ¡n Fuentes

17 years ago

Hi!

If you have no lossless codecs installed (like Lagarith, Cineform, etc), your best choice would be to export as image secuence... JPEG, or better (but bigger) TIFF, which with LZW compression isn't that huge, and looses no quality.

CaMareo

17 years ago

Good tutorial, but could one possibly convert the Action Movie Essentials presets (defaulted @ 30fps) to 24p???

Chris

18 years ago

If I'm converting 29.97 to 24p, what are the proper export/render settings? Also, if I'm going to take this footage into Premiere Pro, what should my project settings be? I have assumptions on all these questions but I think I may be wrong somewhere along the line.

Love the tutorials! Thanks a bunch

Luv

18 years ago

Is it possible to get a CS3 version?

Tom

18 years ago

I'd also like to know the answer to Dan's question about what happens to the audio when converting these clips? and is you have CS3 compatible presets yet?

Thanks

Tom

Anthony

18 years ago

Hello,

Just watched your clip on FPS conversion. It mentioned that the presets were available for download, but I can't find them. Where might they be??

Thanks for the great work!

AM

mohammed

18 years ago

great lesson
thanx andew

Jason

18 years ago

One question. When I place the preset over my footage and try to set the actual frame rates and target frame rates, they stay in sync. When I change one value, the other one changes along with it. Any way to get past this?

Dan

18 years ago

So when converting footage from 30 to 24p how is the audio handled? Eventually, will there be a problem of sync issues.

Arek

18 years ago

Lol Andreww man... luv the jokes man

Kevin Dooley

18 years ago

Any update on this for CS3? I'm trying to use the original preset, but it keeps crashing AE CS3.

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