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    Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different times

    Hi all,
    I apologize if this has been asked and answered myriad times - if there's a thread about it, then I'm not searching for the correct terminology.
    I'm trying to match up some good audio with some good video.
    The good audio is 1 hr 55min @ 25 fps.
    The good video is 2hrs @ 23.976 fps
    I've yet to get the good video as I'm unsure that if I convert the audio to 24fps if it would match up, and my maths isn't good enough to figure it out.
    Is there an easy calculation I can do to figure this out? This must seem really simple to many of you - I feel a bit foolish, but there you go! ...

    Thanks in advance,
    Simon J
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    Re: Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different tim

    you're a tad confused, audio is not measured in frames per second, what you need to do is slow down the audio rate so that the playing time is 2 hrs, though that will change how the audio sounds (but not much).
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    Re: Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different tim

    Quote Originally Posted by cinesimon View Post
    The good audio is 1 hr 55min @ 25 fps.
    The good video is 2hrs @ 23.976 fps
    The difference in running time is very close to the difference it video frame rate:

    120 minutes * 23.976 / 25 = 115.08 minutes
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    Re: Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different tim

    Deadrats yes I realize that, I'm not confused at all - the audio was on a track in which the video was 25fps - rather obvious, I'd have thought. I have done this many times, but in this particular case I was trying to figure out whether that's what I would need to do, BEFORE I downloaded it. So I was asking about how to calculate - or at least whether it seemed likely that the time differences were frame rate, reducing the possibility that I'd be getting a different cut of the film.
    On that note:
    Thanks so much jagabo, that's exactly what I needed to hear, dude.
    And that calculation, now it's been shown to me, seems rather obvious - silly old me... thanks again.
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    Re: Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different tim

    Open the audio in Sound Forge or Audacity, and use the time stretch function.
    Set it to the length to 104.27 % . This will account for the frame rate difference.
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    Re: Figuring out if different fps rates are actual reason for different tim

    Cheers Dave, but what I find wonderful is mkvmerge, and along with muxing the good audio and good video together, I set the video to the frame rate of the track the audio was on. Works a treat, takes a minute.

    Thanks for your attention and time, though - and I'll certainly keep it in mind for other issues I may have in the future.
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