How best to convert 24fps to 60fps?

I would like to know the process to interpolate frames in a video recorded at 24fps to make it 60fps.Could anyone help me?

You question begs a question from me. Do you understand frame rates? Why do you want to do that and what do expect to happen? Last question, what kind of 24fps footage do you have?
Let's talk about kinds of 24 fps footage. First, there's real 24 fps footage, then there's 23.976 fps footage which was really 29.976 (ntsc) video which was recorded interlaced (59.97 fields per second) but has had 3:2 pulldown added which you typically get from a little older video camera with a 24fps option, then there is film originally shot at 24 fps but transferred to video using 3:2 pulldown.
Let's talk about 60 fps as a playback format. First, if you video is ever going to hit television of cable then there is no such thing. Everything in NTSC land is 29.97 fps then interpreted as 23.976 and it's all interlaced. What that means is that if you send progressive footage to a broadcaster you get interlaced footage back but it looks progressive because you have pairs of identical fields. If you live in PAL land you get other options. If you are talking playback on the internet via YouTube or vimeo, the standard is still 29.97, 25, 23.976 or 60P if the receiving client has 60p equipement.
If you truly have 24 fps footage with each frame a unique slice in time then when you "convert" that footage to 60 fps there are only two options. The first option is to just play back the footage at 60 fps which means 10 seconds on the clock will playback in 4 seconds so the motion will be sped up. 240 frames divided by 60 = 4.
The second option is that you keep the playback time the same for your 10 second clip by playing back some of the frames more than once. You can either do that by adding a pull down scheme or using time remapping or a plug-in like Twixtor to take the pixels in 2 frames and calculate their new position in the frame based on their projected movement. For example, let's say frame 1 has a rotating pointer that is vertical and pointed straight up and in frame 2 the pointer is horizontal and pointed to the right. If you were converting to 48fps instead of 60 then you would need a new frame between 1 and 2 with the pointer pointed up and to the right at 45º. This is very difficult for software to do with 100% accuracy, especially if there is a lot going on in the scene.
The only other scenario that I can imagine is that you have some true 60 fps footage that you want to use in the same project as your 24 fps footage. If that is the case, then the option I would pursue would be to create my project at 30 fps and use the 60 fps footage in that project and also import the 24 fps footage into the same project. If you have 60 fps footage that is really 60i or 60p then the frame rate is 59.97fps anyway and you could treat the footage as 29.97 with no degradation in quality or frame blending, then you would either re-render your 24 fps footage as 29.97 fps interlaced with 3:2 pull down added or just use it in your comp with frame blending added or use Twixtor to convert the footage to 29.97...
So I guess we need to know exactly what kind of footage you have and what you are trying to do and what you are expecting to accomplish before we can give you a process that will solve the problem.

Similar Messages

  • Just bought my 1st mac. I have some wma format music files which wo'nt play on i tunes. How best to convert these files so they will play on iTunes?

    just bought my 1st mac. I have some wma format music files which wo'nt play on i tunes. How best to convert these files so they will play on iTunes? Any suggestions much appreciated

    Try using VLC Media Player 2.0.6. EasyWMA 3.3.5  or Music Converter 1.5.1 should be able to convert them to .mp3.

  • How Best To Convert Flash to DVD for Widescreen TV

    I am a noob trying to get my flash file converted over to a
    looping, DVD video clip that will play on a wide screen TV at our
    local pub. I have no idea how to. I also have these questions....
    1. I made it 1020x720.... should it actually be.... 1280x720?
    2. I've downloaded several demos of SWF to DVD conversion
    softwares, yet none seem to provide the graphics quality once
    converted. What software is best?
    3. What format is best to convert to for the best graphics?
    .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, .MP3?
    4. What's Bitrate do when converting? I assume higher is
    better?
    Hope someone here can at least provide me a few expert
    pointers on how to best get my flash file to widescreen TV with the
    best quality without spending hundreds on additional software. Oh,
    and I am using Flash8 if that matters.
    Thanks for any help!!!
    KZ

    Thanks again.  Understand about the copyright issues.
    In regards to my non-commerical DVDs (personal videos and the like for my son to watch on a portable dvd player), Handbrake enabled me to output to MP4 and MKV but not Xvid or DivX.
    Are you aware of any converters that output to the formats I need to copy the files across to a usb drive (Xvid or DivX?)

  • Convert 24fps to 60fps using twixtor?

    Hi folks
    I've got this 1080p 24fps (23,976) clip that I'd like to convert to 60fps. I tried using "frame blending" when exporting the clip to 60fps but that didn't look very well.
    My idea was to use Twixtor to create those extra frames that doesn't exist.
    Twixtor does a much better job creating those extra frames than premiere, the problem is I don't know how to get a slowmo clip play as 60fps?
    23,976 / 60 = 0,3996, so in theory I should be able to slow down my clip to 39,96% and then play it as 60fps in realtime, right?
    I'm using the latest version of Premiere CC on a new MacBook Pro. Would this be esier to do in AE?
    Any ideas?
    Regards
    Patrik

    Qengineering wrote:
    I am totally confused by your use of the terms "slomo" and "realtime".
    I'm kinda guessing you want to play a 23.976 fps (realtime/normal speed) clip at 59.94 fps realtime/normal speed, if that is incorrect, I apologize.
    The correct term for doing this is "Frame rate up-conversion" (use this for your Google searches)
    Twixtor can do this
    http://help.revisionfx.com/tutorial/148/
    And After Effects can do this
    http://creativeclouduser.com/converting-frame-rates-with-after-effects /
    Final quality can vary based on software and original footage.
    Tnx, this was exacly what I was looking for Basically I did exacly as the tutorial, except I changed the sequence settings to 60fps instead of interpret the footage. What is the difference in changing sequence settings and interpret the footage?
    Regards
    Patrik

  • How best to convert HDV to DV

    What is the best method to convert HDV to DV and crop the edges? (not widescreen)

    Hi,
    Have you tried using Compressor?
    You can just make up a new setting, with your crop settings, save it so you have easy access to it in the future. And just load in all your video then do a batch convert and leave it overnight or over weekend.
    Hope this helps.

  • How best to Convert, and edit video tape to digital

    I want to convert, and edit VHS and Betamax video tapes to digital. My research indicates that there are a number of ways to achieve this, including:
    1. A video recorder with a hard disk and DVR (Which?)
    2. The "pass through" feature on a MiniDV camcorder (Discussion Sites)
    3. EyeTV 250 Plus (Magazine)
    4. Canopus' (ADVC300), which “cleans and stabilises analogue video before conversion so the digital is a higher quality than the original analogue” (Magazine and Discussion Sites)
    Some claim that an S-video connection is essential for best results.
    Can an expert advise the best solution?

    I have a Canopus ADVC-300 that I use when digitizing VHS and Hi8 material.
    It works quite well. The included software allows you to adjust the quality of the image as it is being converted.
    Connect the tape deck to the ADVC-300 using SVHS cable and an audio RCA cable then firewire between the ADVC-300 and your mac. Turn on everything and launch iMovie to capture the playing video stream.
    If you have technical questions regarding iMovie and or iDVD, each has a specific forum here on the Apple Discussions site.
    Good luck,
    x

  • How best to convert DVD to Xvid or DivX

    Hi guys,
    I really don't have any idea where to post this question - but I thought I would start here!
    I have been searching the community and have found various posts on my issue, but still remain a little confused on exactly the best way to do what I need to do (I may be completely dense as a relatively new Mac user.....).
    I need to convert DVDs to either Xvid or DivX so I can put them on a usb drive.  I have previously used Handbrake, but it seems that Handbrake no longer allows output to Xvid or DivX?
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Cheers.

    Thanks again.  Understand about the copyright issues.
    In regards to my non-commerical DVDs (personal videos and the like for my son to watch on a portable dvd player), Handbrake enabled me to output to MP4 and MKV but not Xvid or DivX.
    Are you aware of any converters that output to the formats I need to copy the files across to a usb drive (Xvid or DivX?)

  • How best to convert psd to jpeg?

    I am using pse9,  I resized photos with Perfect Resize and they are now in psd files. I copied them to a flash drive and tried to move them to a converter, but the converter does not recognize them.
    Any help will be appreciated,
    Lascar

    If a single file, just do a save as or use Save for Web. For many files, if they're in organizer use File>Export in windows and choose jpg as the format. If not, or if you're on a mac, use File>Process Mulitple Files in the editor.

  • Use old C3 swfs in Captivate 5 project - how best to convert?

    I'm updating some old elearning content created in Captivate 3 in Captivate 5.
    This features some animations which are small 1 or 2 slide C3 swfs.
    These don't work in C5 as they are set up in ActionScript 2.
    I've tried opening their original .cp files in Captivate 5 and then republishing to make them AS3.
    This results in the animation (sometimes) playing when I play the slide in the editing window, but when previewing or
    publishing I get a grey blank that does nothing.
    Strangely the whole C3 project that contained the swfs comes through relatively unscathed apart from this (well a few invisible buttons and some font changes).
    The only workaround I've got at the moment is to open the file in C3, copy the background, then use the background in a new C5 project and fiddle around with mouse positioning etc, which is far from ideal.
    Is there a better way of doing this?
    (BTW I also have access to C4 if this helps)
    Thanks
    Lynn

    I would try upgrading my Cp3 project files that generate these SWFs first to Cp4 format, and then from Cp4 to Cp5.
    Once you have them in Cp5 format your issues should be minimal as far as compatibility goes.

  • How do you convert 60fps to 24fps in FCP X

    How do you convert 60fps to 24fps in FCP X for or do I need to figure out the percentages and use that optical flow tool, because I have tried to figure it out but there is a blurry trail when I use the optical flow tool.

    Thanks Tom, so can you do that after it's already been imported? I am out shooting this afternoon, but I will look for it when I get back to the studio. I appreciate the help, I haven't had a lot of time to spend relearning FCP, so any help I can get to make my life easier is super appreciated.
    Cheers,
    Matt

  • TA25521 After editing a video clip that was shot in 60fps how do I convert that clip to 24fps for publishing

    After editing a video clip in FCX that was shot in 60fps how do I convert that clip to 24fps for publishing?

    There is only a limited amount of Compressor instruction available unless you purchase a subscription to something like Lynda.com or a tutorial from Ripple or Larry Jordan.
    My advice to everyone who is interested in learning about Compressor is to read the first two chapters of the user manual – on basics and workflows. Those should provide enough of an understanding to cover the majority of things users need Compressor to accomplish. Of course there is plenty more for those who want to explore.
    Here is a short write-up from Ken Stone on changing frame rates.
    Good luck.
    Russ

  • How can I convert .mov files for use with other apps?

    When loading movies taken on a friend's digital camera to my PC, the video files were saved as Quicktime .mov files. I am now unable to pull those files into any other software program (I want to put them onto a CD or DVD and play on external players.) How can I convert .mov files to a .wmv or .avi or mpeg?
    Thanks - J
    RS720G   Windows XP  

    Kodak Digital Camera QuickTime MOV Problems
    After battling a number of serious problems with the videos taken by my new Kodak Digital Camera, I decided to write up this page so that anyone searching the web would find out the true answers without as much grief!
    I’ve also made some other comments about my experience with the camera, in case anyone was considering buying a Kodak camera in the near future.
    I bought the camera just before Christmas 2004 in the US. At the time of writing, it is a pretty good model for domestic use—about 5.2 megapixels, costing about US$400 (or AU$600 back here in Australia). From a company as reputable as Kodak, I expected no problems.
    The first disappointing thing was that the spring inside the spring-loaded battery clip, inside the camera, came loose within days. It proved impossible to reattach it without completely dismantling the camera, which (despite my engineering qualifications) I was not willing to do. This would usually have been a warranty item, but Kodak’s warranty does not extend to other countries. I’ve since had to jam cardboard in to keep the battery clip engaged, and have taped the battery bay shut to avoid it opening accidentally when taking the camera out of the case. This works fine with the docking station (an extra AU$100!), but it means I can no longer charge the battery without the docking station (since you need to take it out to charge it). I was not impressed!
    The camera takes good photos, and I have no complaint with that. The controls and camera menus are well-designed. The large display is excellent.
    The EasyShare software is not as easy to use as it looks, has a habit of crashing, has a web update program that is always running in the background of Windows, and transferring images is nowhere as easy or quick as it should be. I’ve now uninstalled it completely, and simply copy the photos directly from the device. (If the camera memory is nearly full, and you just want to transfer the last few photos, then it’s impossible to use the EasyShare software to browse the camera’s photos without it actually downloading the whole lot through the USB cable—and it takes forever! Copying from the device directly doesn’t hit this bug.)
    The capability to take video using the camera was a great attraction when I selected it, and, if it worked properly, it would make it quite a handy little camcorder in its own right. With a 512 MB memory card in it, over an hour of video can be recorded at Video-CD quality (320 x 240 24fps video, 8 kHz audio). It’s not full digital video, but it would still be a pretty good feature for a US$400 camera. If it worked.
    The first disappointing thing about taking videos is that the optical zoom cannot be adjusted while the camera is recording. It can only be adjusted between video sequences. I don’t know why this restriction was made in the design.
    The real problems, however, start when you try to do anything with the video clips captured by the camera. Kodak has chosen to capture the videos in QuickTime format. This is fine—QuickTime is, technically, excellent—except that there is no simple way to convert QuickTime MOV files to AVI or MPEG or VCD. The Kodak software comes with a QuickTime player, so you can see the video clips on the computer you installed the software on—and they look good. Problem is that you can’t just dump those MOV files onto your Video-CD creator (it will usually want AVI or MPEG files).
    It takes some time to realise that Kodak have not even bothered to include any software with the camera that can convert these MOV files to a more useful format. This is a serious PR blunder, and anyone bitten by this is unlikely to go near the Kodak brand ever again.
    After some web searching, owners of these cameras generally find that the best (only?) freeware solution to convert MOV to AVI is Bink and Smacker’s RADtools program.
    RADtools is amazingly powerful for the price (i.e. free), but it hits two fundamental problems with Kodak Digital Camera MOV video files, that are the fault of the Kodak camera, not RADtools. (I know this because every other MOV converter hits the same problems—except one, as you will see below.)
    The first problem is that the sound cannot be converted properly. When you convert any Kodak MOV files, there is an “aliasing” of the sound at the upper frequencies. This is a technical description—you get a whispery, tinny, C3PO type of echo to everything. It really destroys the quality of the video clips (especially bad when I am trying to capture priceless memories of my 4- and 7-year-old sons—I don’t want their voices destroyed for all time).
    Every conversion program I tried ended up with the same audio problem. I concluded that it is something strange in the way the Kodak cameras store the MOV files.
    Strangely enough, I noticed that the QuickTime player didn’t distort the audio like this. The audio sounds just fine through QuickTime. More on this shortly.
    The second, more serious problem is that RADtools could not properly convert some of the video clips at all. (This problem only affected less than 10% of the clips I originally filmed, but most of those clips were very short—less than 20 seconds. It seems that the probability of this problem gets worse, the longer the clip.) RADtools would misreport the number of frames in the clip, and would stretch out a small number of frames of video (in slow motion) to match the length of the audio.
    Again, I confirmed that this is a property of some of the MOV files stored by the camera. Other conversion tools also had problems with the same MOV clips.
    After more angst, I found a number of websites in which frustrated owners of these Kodak cameras have reported the exact same problems.
    It was only then that I discovered that QuickTime itself can convert MOV files to AVI. Believe it or not, it’s built into the QuickTime Player that Kodak supplies, or that you can download free from apple.com. The problem is that you can’t use it unless you pay Apple to upgrade to QuickTime Pro.
    After realising that this would probably be the only way to get decent audio for these clips, I paid the AU$59 to Apple Australia to get the licence key that enables the extra “Pro” menu options in QuickTime.
    Sure enough, you can “Export” any MOV file to a number of formats, including AVI. And guess what? The audio comes out fine!
    So, the first piece of advice I can give is: pay Apple the US$29 (or whatever amount it is in your country) to upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro.
    From here, however, there are still a few snags to untangle.
    The first is that the default settings for Exporting to AVI don’t give a great result. It defaults to the Cinepak codec, medium quality. This looks terrible compared to the original QuickTime movie. Even on maximum quality, that codec just doesn’t give good results.
    I finally found that the best option is to use the Intel Indeo Video 4.4 codec, set on maximum quality. This creates AVI files that are 10 to 20 times larger than the original MOV files, but the quality is there. If (like me) you only want the AVI files so you can dump them into your Video-CD program, then you want to keep the quality as high as possible in this first step. The extra hard disk space is not really a concern. When your VCD program converts the AVI files to MPEG, it will compress them to the usual VCD size.
    Now for the biggest snag: those problem MOV files are still a problem, even for QuickTime Pro. Unbelievably, these Kodak cameras are spitting out MOV files which have some sort of technical flaw in their data specifications. QuickTime is able to play them back fine—and that seems to be all that the Kodak engineers really checked. However, if QuickTime Pro tries to export them, then when the progress bar gets to the end, it never finishes. It just keeps going. If you check the output folder with Explorer, and keep hitting F5 to update the file listing, you can see the file getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. It never stops.
    That this happens even for QuickTime itself (the native format for these files) confirms that the problem is with the software built into these Kodak cameras. It would be nice it they issued a patch or a fix. I couldn’t find one.
    Fortunately, there is a “workaround” for this problem. I found it when trolling the net trying to find solutions to all these problems. The workaround is to use QuickTime Pro’s cut and paste facility. Open the problem MOV file, then press Ctrl-A (the standard key combination for “select all”—in this case it selects the entire film clip, as you can see by the grey selection of frames at the bottom of the player). Then hit Ctrl-C (i.e. copy, which in this case copies all the frames, but not the incorrect data structure in the original MOV file). Now hit Ctrl-N (i.e. new, in this case a new MOV file or player). In this new player, press Ctrl-V (i.e. paste). Now you have a new version of the MOV file with the bad data structure exorcised. You can save this under a new name, but make sure you specify “Make movie self-contained”—otherwise, it will simply be a link to the original (bad) MOV file, which you are probably going to delete once you save the exorcised version. (You also cannot overwrite the original file, because it needs to access that to make the “self-contained” movie. You need to give it a slightly different name, save it “self-contained”, then delete the original and rename the new copy back to what you wanted it to be. A pain, I agree, but at least the **** thing works—finally!)
    The exorcised MOV file can now be used to Export to AVI format. (I also keep all the MOV files on a separate CD, in case I want to reconvert them to a different format in the future. I figure it’s better keeping the exorcised ones than the haunted ones.)
    So I hope that all this answers a few of your questions. No, you weren’t being incredibly stupid.

  • How do I convert a pdf in Adobe Acrobat 9 to Microsoft Word document?

    How do I convert a pdf in Acrobat 9 to a Microsoft Word document?

    Hi fireatty,
    In Acrobat 9, you can use the Export command (File > Export) to export your PDF to Word format.
    Please let us know if you need additional assistance.
    Best,
    Sara

  • I have a 2 page PDF (portrait format), how can I convert the format to landscape?

    I have a 2 page (portaait format) PDF file how can I convert the PDF file into landscape format before I change it to XL?

    Hi jsremick,
    To change the page orientation of a PDF, you need to use Acrobat. (Reader allows you to rotate the page view, but not the pages  themselves).
    If you don't have Acrobat, feel free to give it a try. You can download the free 30-day trial from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html.
    Best,
    Sara

  • How do I convert from PAL to NTSC in compressor?

    I have a project I converted from mp4 file to Apple Pro Res to edit it in FCP.  I exported using Compressor and tried to import the files to DVD Studio Pro.  It said it can't put PAL files into an NTSC project.  I didn't even realize it was filmed in PAL (yes, I have the rights to use the footage).  How do I convert the files from PAL to put it into FCP...in Compressor?  If so, how?  Thanks for any help!

    To  convert the 25fps PAL file to a 29.97fps file staying within the ProRes codec:
    • Open up compressor. In the Settings window select: Apple>Formats>Quicktime>ProRes 422
    • Select the "Duplicate Selected Setting" icon in the upper left of the Settings window
    • This creates duplicate of the preset that you can edit
    • Select the preset copy and, in Inspector, give it a new name (something like ProRes PAL>NTSC)
    • In Encoder>Video Settings>Frame rate - and change the frame rate to 29.97
    • In Frame Controls> turn them on and set Resize Filter and Rate Conversion to BETTER.  (If so set them to BEST, be prepared for a long wait)
    • In the Geometry tab, set the Frame Size to 720x480 (you don't say if the file is 16:9 or 4:3)
    • Submit the file and go have dinner. Depending on the length of the file, it may take hours.
    Have fun.
    x

Maybe you are looking for

  • Importing from SD card to iPhoto - not all images recognized

    Hi, I'd be really grateful for some help... I've got a Panasonic Lumix LX1 camera, with a 2GB SD card. When I play back the pictures on the card through the camera, there are 655 images. But when I've tried to import these images to iPhoto 6, the com

  • JDBC-ODBC database related

    someone please help me with this issue. i wonder why i need to put 2 lines of executeUpdate() to successfully insert a new record... thanks in advance for those who helped ;) peixing. import java.io.*; public class Index{ public static void main(Stri

  • Apex Charts - Pass Multiple Variables & Using GROUP BY

    Hi, I'm using Apex 3.2.1 and have generated a chart with the following query - select NULL link, PROXY label, count(*) value from "INVENT_OWNER"."LMT_SPACE_EMAILS" where RESPONSE = 'NO' group by PROXY This works fine. I now want to link the 'PROXY' c

  • How do i get an installation alert to go away?

    I want to update. there is a installation alert stating "in order to continue installation, please close the following application: itunes" i do not have itunes opened. I opended it then closed it. the alert will not go away. there are no icons in th

  • Is it possible to install 10r2 for linux x86 on RH AS5 64bits?

    hi i have a DVD for oracle 10 r2 for linux x86 and my opérating system is an RH 5 advanced server 64bits. is it possible to install oracle on this manner?