This is true about the frame rate dropping back from 30 to 24 or 25. We were having this discussion today at our office where a client shooting a documentary had several people shooting an event at night and had several people shooting on iphones and Galaxy phones. Man, we love these jobs where we get a bunch of mixed frame rates to deal with.

I did a Google search on this but not much surfaced. It seems to me that ipads and iPhones drop back to 24 fps when lighting becomes an issue and they need a longer exposure per frame. I'm not 100% sure about this, but that's what I'm seeing so far on footage.

Jack Tunnicliffe

Java Post Production

On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Frank Felker <fjfelker@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't have an iPad, but my iPod Touch shoots 30 fps nominally, but will drop to 24, or 25 at times, without regard to the settings.

frank felker

On 3/27/2013 8:59 PM, James Culbertson wrote:

As I understand it iDevices don't guarantee any particular frame rate... it depends upon conditions, and up to some maximum frame rate depending upon the device and generation.

Depending upon how Premiere is handling them you might want to run them through AE first to standardize the clip frame rate to your project frame rate.

James

On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Rick wrote:

I had a client send me 4 videos shot back-to-back with a first generation ipad. They are lacking in any tech knowledge (I had to explain ftp to them).  I'm trying to work with the footage in Premiere then going into AE to finish it.

Two clips are coming in at 24fps and two are coming in 30fps. Mediainfo shows them at 24.06 and 28.86.

What is the default frame rate of the ipad? The only thing I could find online is that you can change it up to 30, but I don't know if this is default.  They don't even know how to change the settings.

Thanks,

 

Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com