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The Preserve Frame Rate option - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
The Preserve Frame Rate option
In the previous two movies we showed you how to smooth out studdery motion that may result from slowing down the footage, but what if you do want that studdery motion? Maybe you do need a stop-motion or counting-through-time sort of feel. Well, let's show you how to do that. Open up the comp 11a-Preserve Rate*starter. Again, here we have our man walking from his car into his plane. If I open up the Composition Settings for this comp, I'll find it has a rate of 23.976. That's a common filmic rate for video. Note that I also have this comp nested into a second comp--nesting with the subject of an earlier After Effects Apprentice lesson. I'll press the Shift key to bring up the mini flowchart, navigate to the comp this one is nested in, 0 to RAM Preview, and you see what we have here is a nice lower third and a little bit of a animated text building on over the video footage of this guy walking from his car. Say the client sees this and says, "Okay, I see what you're he doing here, but…
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