From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Importing a sequence of still images - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Importing a sequence of still images
Not all source footage comes in the form of a movie where all of the individual frames, which are supposed to be played one after another, are bundled together in one file. Sometimes you'll get what's known as a still image sequence, a series of individual still images or frames which you need to assemble one after another into a continuous movie. Well, After Effects can do that for you automatically. But before you do that, you need to set up a preference. I am going to go to Preferences in After Effects, and go to Import, and there's an item here for Sequence Footage. What frame rate to assign by default to any sequences of still images that you import. It defaults to 30, which is rare to use for anything. If I was in a PAL video country, I would make it a 25. Since I am in an NTSC country, I'll enter 29.97. Don't fret this too much. You can change this after the fact for each sequence whenever you like. So it's nice to setup a default ahead of time that makes sense for the project…
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