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!

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

Hi Andrew,

first of all: Thx so much for all these grate tutorials you share with us. We would order more of your DVD´s if they would translate into german.
But now I´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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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...

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

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!

Will this work on Cs4? Anyone?

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.

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...

:P

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.

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?

Can you please upgdate the preset for SC3

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

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

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.

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.

@ 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.

@ 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.

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?

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!

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.

its Good toturials & Footages,
and

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.

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

THANK U ! VERY HELPFUL !

@ 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Is it possible to get a CS3 version?

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

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

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?

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

Lol Andreww man... luv the jokes man

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