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Mixing frame rates
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
Mixing frame rates
Richard: Now, you, and I both do a lot of work in postproduction, the editing stage, and invariably in the middle of a project you'll start looking at the footage going, something just looks kind of weird. Robbie: Yeah, that happens, well, that happens for me all the time. For one of the reasons that happens is typically because we have projects that might have mixed frame rate media. You know, something at 24 frames per second or 23.98, something else at 29.97 and something else may be even at 50 or 60 frames per second. Richard: And this pops up for a lot of situations. For example, we are dealing with clients who have legacy materials, plus new materials, you know a lot of people are moving to 24p, but they'll cut in some older footage, and it's got 30 frames per second or 25, or they just get--I don't want to say it, but it's true: careless. Different crews shooting on different days use different settings, because the producer, the director never says these are our tech specs…