From the course: After Effects Hidden Gems
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Conform frame rate - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Hidden Gems
Conform frame rate
- This hidden gem concerns hot to fix a gotcha that pops up every now and then in After Effects. If you've ever had problems with a piece of footage where frames are getting repeated or skipped, the problem usually lies with its frame rate. Well there is a way to change and fix the frame rate for a layer. In this particular case I'm gonna zoom in on the very end of this layer inside a composition. This brighter area indicates the duration of one frame. If I go to the end of this clip, you'll see that it does not fill out an entire frame. In other words, when frames are occuring with a source, or happening at different intervals, when frames are occuring in the timeline, that's what can cause skipped or repeated frames. Let's go fix that. I'm going to right click on this particular layer, say, Reveal Layer Source in the Project, there it is, and open up this seldom used but very important dialog called Interpret footage. This is where you set things like the frame rate as well as the…