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How to Fix Dupe Frames in Movies

Digital technology continues to advance everyday. As a result, it has become relatively easy to tackle tedious post production edit such as dupe frames, which are better known as duplicate frames. Dupe frames are excessive pieces of video that are filmed during film production. Using Virtual Dub Mod, you quickly fix duplicate frames in any video. Eliminating dupe frames in a project will make your video more coherent because dupe frames are unnecessary and can distract from your video's story.

Things You'll Need

  • MAC or PC
  • Virtual Dub Mod
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Instructions

    • 1

      Save your file to a hard drive and open in Virtual Dub Mod, which is a video capture and linear processing tool. Select video and highlight frame rate.

    • 2

      Navigate to source rate adjustment in the top section of the dialog box. Go to "frameserve" and highlight "MPEG encoder." Select "change to 119.88 frames per second." The source rate adjustment will be highlighted in your dialog box. Once you change the frame rate, your video will move at a faster speed.

    • 3

      Select "decimate by four" in the frame rate conversion section.

    • 4

      Click "Video," then select "Output. Choose "output codec and encode" to remove your duplicate frames and restore the original image to 29.97 frames per second.

    • 5

      Play back your image to see your frames fixed.

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