Home movies 18fps

Is there a way to add 18fps to the pull down menu in flame? I scanned my family’s home movies, edited in flame, and want to output the final quicktime at 18fps. Resolve is the obvious workaround, but I’d rather stay in flame if I can.
Thanks,
Sam

Do you really want to put a pulldown in it? And 18 seems strange. I thought old home movies ran at 16 or 24. If it’s 16, I would think you would want to put that in metadata so that it played back at true 16.

I want to make a Quicktime movie that is encoded at 18fps. No pulldown!

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Regular 8mm was 18fps.

I assume you have researched this, but not all were 18fps.

Changing frame rate of QuickTime

@SamE you might want to open an improvement on Flame-Feedback for this but if I were you I would probably use @philm workaround usng ffmpeg. This modification to the QuickTime header would take 2 seconds.

Thanks for the help folks. I ran it through Resolve and got the desired results. Their method leaves a little to be desired. I had to do a 75% timewarp on the footage to get it to play correctly in a 18fps timeline. Not ideal. But the end result looks clean. Given how messed up the footage is after 60 years, it’s rather pointless to be very anal about it.
As for making a feature request, I would think that there would be several use cases for having a ‘custom’ option for frame rates in flame.

Hey Phil, if there was a chance I thought I’d need to do this again, I would certainly try this as an option.

@SamE - I’m right there with you brother - sometimes life is short - oh wait, life is always short