Hi all,
last holidays i did a big mistake not ensuring, that also my new camera devices (drone and dashcam) have the same capture frames rates as my main video cam.
I know: this mistake is an absolutly no go for experienced camera operators :-)
So I had to deal with 29.97 FPS footage and 50.00 FPS footage in same video projects.
I worked for weeks very hard in order to find the best solution to keep smooth camera pans and generally prevent jerky/choppy results after export.
I tried it with nearlly every video editing solution/software.actual available on the market. Also I used Google a lot in order to get some tips.
Again and I again: mostly I had very big jutter in the videos after export.
The best results in comparison I had with Adobe Premiere or Adobe Media Encoder in using the optical flow option. The results came very near to my expectations.
The problem with optical flow is, that it reduces the total sharpness in some scences, Increase sharpness causes sometimes artifacts. Also I recognized in some clips micro jutter.
Again: Adobe makes the best job in changing frames rates. All other video editing software solutions I tested created very choppy jutter video results.
By pure coincidence I found last days the best solution.
On my Ipad (Pro) I use in holidays/on trips the LumaTouch app. This app can also export H264 and H265 with very high bit rates.
So lossless export of original footage is guaranteed.
I tested the last days a lot of clips
- converting 50 FPS to 29.97 FPS
- converting 29.97 FPS to 50 FPS
SURPRISE!
Whatever I convert from one FPS to another FPS: the results are absolutly smooth without losing sharpness.
So I do now my post production unusually on my Ipad with Lumatouch, before editing in Adobe.
I know, that this solutions seems on the first view a very unusual solution. BUT, it works :-)