Frame Rate- Can someone clarify please.

[markyboy]

I have been pouring over all the forums and I am slowly picking up speed with this, however could someone pls explaine frame rates.

I have 5 films that I downloaded over the holidays and each of them has a frame rate of 14.9 frames per second.

One is a screener Bloodwork
The rest are "dvd rips"...reign of fire , the grinch.. I have to add that the quality is good in them all, but I have nothing to compare them to.

I downloaded Jackass and it says it is 29.9...any thoughts...

I have to add that the quality of the 14.9 ones were not too good by the time I had converted them to vcd's.

Thanks very much for any responses

[Craig Tucker]

29.97 is NTSC, 14.9 is half the framerate of NTSC, this has been done by whoever created the video to minimise the filesize, it will not look that great as half of the frames have been discarded.

[markyboy]

thanks craig.

Is it possible to check the frame rate prior or during a download?

[Craig Tucker]

Not that I know of. However, you can check the quality of a file using avipreview. See tools section.