Does X7 feature Frame Blending?

[Phlip]

Hello, I wonder if Corel Videostudio features frame inserting/blending, just to smooth out anything that has too low a framerate?
If there are, are there any tutorials?

If not, what alternative method is there to smoothing the framerate?

[Ken Berry]

Can you give a little more detail on the video in your project: what is its current frame rate and what frame rate are you wanting to achieve. But I am not absolutely sure exactly what you are trying to do. Normally, say, if you have PAL video, which uses a frame rate of 25 fps, and you want to convert it to NTSC (29.97 fps) then VS will simply copy 4.97 existing frames and insert them to achieve this. But if the video has lots of action, this will not result in smooth playback. Similarly if you start with an NTSC framerate and want to drop it back to PAL, 4.97 frames will simply be deleted, and again, depending on the action in the video, the result might look a little jerky. And this jerkiness will only be magnified if, say, you start off with video which has a 15 fps frame rate and you want to make it 30 fps... So please tell us a bit more about exactly what you are wanting to do and where your video came from. Please also right click on one of the original clips in the Video Studio timeline and copy ALL its Properties here or else take a screen grab of the Properties box and upload it here as an Attachment.

[Phlip]

Current framerate is 30FPS, hoping to boost up to 60FPS, or even slightly lower.
Type of video is gameplay footage from one of the early Tomb Raider games, so nothing overly fast.

[Ken Berry]

I don't have Fraps but does it have a setting which allows you to record at 60 fps? That would obviously be better than VS simply playing every existing frame twice to go from 30 to 60 fps.

[Phlip]

It does, but then that puts more pressure on my PC and has its own slowdown effects.

Is there any standard way to just let VS7 know how much to boost whatever footage up to a specified framerate?

[lata]

Hi

I am not sure if you simply wish to re-code the video to use 60 fps or expect the video to play faster.

With your video on the timeline, Share – Avi – choose the “+” symbol to create a new template.

Choose the AVI tab and set the Compression to None, that is the same as your original.
The General tab will allow you to select a Frame Rate – 60fps will simply duplicate every frame, playback duration will be the same.

Its best to match your project properties to your video file. You may be best setting Show Messages via Preferences F6
Start a new project – add a clip should prompt you to match the properties, if not set the properties by hand.

By the way your AVI is un-compressed and will be 64 Gb per hour, that’s quite large?

Using Fraps to record to 60 will create 60 different frames per second, rendering using Video Studio will duplicate frames

[Phlip]

I wanted to recode into 60FPS, not to actually speed up the footage.

The way in which I capture footage captures it very uncompressed, straight from a 3D engine, so yes, the file sizes are very large. I was hoping to keep under 2GB per 15 minutes at 720p 60FPS. Some compression options only allowed for 4:3 aspect ratios.

[lata]

Hi

Try converting to another format AVC/H264 would allow for 50P/60P

AVC (1280 x 720, 60p, 18Mbps)

I don’t know what difference it will make to playback, converting from 30fps to 60fps is simply gonna replicate each frame.
I would think both videos would look the same, other than converting to the other format.

If you remained with 30fps you could convert to mpeg4, that may be a better option.