No 24p in Arena?

[nightjar84]

Hi there,

I'm very new to Arena, it already suprised me: No 24fps setting in "Composition Settings" Is there a particular reason for that? A lot of my footage is 24p.

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers.

[Zoltán]

You can manually enter any value in the FPS box you'd like.

[Oaktown]

A lot of my footage is 24p

But your displays are probably 29.97, 30, 59.84 or 60, right? So you might be better off adjusting your comp to your output refresh rate. I personally set all my comps at 30.

[nightjar84]

got it. thanks.

No, I have a 24p monitor and the projector is able to handle 24p as well. But I'll probably use 30p for the project.

When would you use 29.97 and when 30p?

Cheers

[Menno]

If your output monitor/projector is already 24fps there is no need to set the composition framerate to 24fps as well, the vsync will already cause rendering to be limited to 24fps. This setting can be used to limit the framerate to something even lower than the vsync interval. eg you might want to limit the composition framerate to 30fps on a 60fps monitor. This will cause resolume to use less system resources as it'll only have to render one frame for every two displayed frames.
You'd use 29.97 if you want to render half the amount of frames on a 59.94hZ monitor.
Similarly you'd use 30.00 if you want to render half the amount of frames on a 60.00hZ monitor.

I would suggest using Auto if you want to match your projector's output, and otherwise enter numbers that are 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 times your projector's output.