A 25 fps quicktime output ???

[Elvoid]

Hi,
I'm working with LW 8.2 and desperately look forward to get a quicktime output that goes 25 frames per second but I don't seem to get it right. I've got a moving mapping I've set to 25 fps, and have set a 25 fps set in the render settings/video options as well as I have selected a dv pal (also tried animation) setting. And still : my outputs are going 30 fps.
Anyone thinks of some detail I may not be aware of ?
Thanks in advance !

[Mylenium]

Hi,
I'm working with LW 8.2 and desperately look forward to get a quicktime output that goes 25 frames per second but I don't seem to get it right. I've got a moving mapping I've set to 25 fps, and have set a 25 fps set in the render settings/video options as well as I have selected a dv pal (also tried animation) setting. And still : my outputs are going 30 fps.
Anyone thinks of some detail I may not be aware of ?
Thanks in advance !

That's a bug in Quicktime that's been there for ages. It just won't properly play back some movies. Does not affect the file, though, and once you import your clip into another program you will see that everything is fine.

Mylenium

[Elvoid]

Thanks, but it actually is in after effects that the bug appears, and when rendering there, the flow comes to 25 fps, which gives a jumping image... hate that...

[BeeVee]

Try upgrading to 8.5. This was a longstanding bug with LightWave's implementation of Quicktime, but it has been resolved.

B

[munky]

hi there Elvoid,

If you are putting your lightwave stuff into after fx fo your post work. I'd strongly suggest that you render your lightwave stuff as image sequences and not Quicktimes, because you don't get frame rate issues and if for any reason LW crashes halfway through a render you only have to render from the frame it crashed at and not from the start as you would have to do if it were a quicktime!

regards

paul

Hi to Ben also.

[Elvoid]

thanks
tried that out, also but once in After FX, you still get that 30 frames issue. But I think I figured it out somehow. I'll tell you about it. Gotta launch my render tonight.

[jeremyhardin]

what is your scene set to? if it's 30 fps, render options wont stay 25 fps i don't think. i think your scene has to be 25 fps first.

on a side note, munky's spot on with this one. if you animate at 25 fps, then render a still image sequence, the sequence doesn't have any fps settings until you bring it into your comp (AE, DF, or Combustion, or whatever). Plus it's higher quality. Plus you can resume rendering if it crashes. Plus you can convert it to avi, mov, wmv, m4v, or anything without double-compressing.