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Choosing frame rate and playback speed

Choosing frame rate and playback speed - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Choosing frame rate and playback speed

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- [Instructor] The animation frame rate is set in the Time Configuration dialog. That's a button at the very bottom of the main window next to the transport controls. It looks like a clock with a gear next to it. Time Configuration, click that to open the dialog where we can set up our frame rate, the length of the active time segment, and so on. In the upper left is the Frame Rate section. And it's got some archaic acronyms here, NTSC and PAL and also a button labeled Film. I recommend that you stay away from these three buttons because they are either antiquated or ambiguous. NTSC is the former analog television standards from the United States. If you choose NTSC, then 3ds Max will run at 30 frames per second. But that is technically inaccurate because NTSC color television runs at 29.97 frames per second. Only the ancient black and white NTSC standard from the 1950s actually ran at 30 frames per second. 3ds Max is not…

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