How to change the screen recording to correct framerate

Content creation

May 28

If you have the wrong framerate on your video or screenrecording, which you can see by dragging and dropping it into the app “Media info”, you can change this easily, and I will show you how.

How to change the screen recording to correct framerate

My first tutorials (from 2017) looked very strange.

In the screen recordings (because that’s what it was), the mouse cursor was "jumping" or appeared broken or showed another mouse cursor at the same time... It looked like a "glitch".

So how did I fix it?
👉 By changing the framerate.

For the screen recording to be smooth after exporting, you want the recording to have the same framerate (amount of frames per second) as the sequence you are working in.

My screen recordings are 59 fps, but my sequence is usually 25 fps.
So I use the free tool "HandBrake" to convert it to 25 fps before I start the editing process.

This is how you do it 👇

First, you download the free tool “Handbrake”, available for both Mac and PC, then you open that program and drag-and-drop your video into that window or by clicking “Open Source” at the top left to browse for it.

Now, after loading the footage, you can select a “Preset” in the “Preset dropdown” or enter your own settings and then (if you want to save those settings), click “Save New Preset”.

I usually just go to “Dimensions” and change “Cropping” to 0 on all sides, to get the same dimensions as the original footage.

Then, I go to “Audio” and select audio source (if I want to keep the audio),
and finally i click the tab “Video”, change the framerate to whatever I want and select “Constant Framerate” underneath.

Then I select how much I want to compress it with the slider, where I want to save it with the “Browse”-button at the bottom, and then click “Start”.

And if I want to create a list with videos, before I click start, I click “Add to Queue” and then I go through the whole process again, and then I click “Start”.

🎞 Watch the video here!

And if you want to learn how you can import your footage, including the folder structure 📂, into Premiere Pro, check this video.

Thanks for reading!