Create project - Movie settings: no 1080p option

DesertSweeper wrote on 2/3/2018, 3:01 AM

Forgive my surely stupid newbie question but this one has been throwing me for a while, and from comments on a different thread relating to performance I figured this could be a problem. When I create a new project I have the "Movie settings" drop-down choice. And there is no option for NTSC 1920x1080 30fps progressive - only interlaced is available. There is 24p and 60p but no 30p or 29.97 to be exact). My footage is:

Bit rate                                 : 11.5 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate                         : 14.9 Mb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Clean aperture width                     : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Clean aperture height                    : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive

Comments

emmrecs wrote on 2/3/2018, 3:48 AM

Hi.

I'm in PAL-land so the settings I see may be different to yours, but I agree, I see no setting to match your video footage.

However, right at the bottom of the Movie Settings list on the Create Project screen, you will find a setting, "User Defined (open Movie Settings)" Select this option and another screen will open , "Project/Movie settings"; on the tab "Movie settings", toward the bottom, you can set your own parameters. I've just tried this by selecting the "NTSC Full HD 60p ..." setting and then changing the frame rate, bottom right hand corner of same screen, to 29.97.

VPX seems to accept this without problem and the timeline opens. Unfortunately I have no suitable footage available to test so cannot check that this definitely works!

HTH

Jeff

DesertSweeper wrote on 2/3/2018, 4:15 AM

This is what I do normally. But I am curious - is Full-HD 30p that rare that it is omitted as an easy-pick option?

emmrecs wrote on 2/3/2018, 4:26 AM

I honestly have no idea. Being in PAL-land I have never needed to use any 30/29.97 fps setting!