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Frame blending

Frame blending - After Effects Tutorial

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Frame blending

- [Instructor] We've imported an image sequence and we've changed the frame rate of that sequence to be slower five frames per second than the frame rate of the composition we put it into, which is at 29.97 frames per second. So how does After Effects make up the difference between those two frame rates? Well it's simple, it just has to repeat or skip frames of the source in order to make it fit the frame rate of the composition. So if I press page down and step one frame at a time through the composition, you will see the frames of the source are being repeated. That's because it's playing back at slower speed than our compo is being sampled. As I do this, you'll even see we only get these green RAM preview cache bars where there are unique frames of source material to play. I'm going to delete our fade out that we played around with earlier, stretch out the work area to take up more of the source, and press zero on the numeric keypad to run preview, and you see the result is fairly…

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