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Working with time display format

Working with time display format - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with time display format

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- [Voiceover] The last thing I want to talk about in this lesson is how time is displayed in After Effects and how you can change this time display. You've probably noticed that as you move the current time indicator, the time displays at the bottom of the comp panel and the top left edge at the timeline panel increment depending on what frame you're on. As I press page down, you'll see that frame number increment. You might have noticed something kind of funky goes on here, if you're not used to video, when you get up to frame number 29. It rolls over to one second and zero frame. This is how SMPTE timecode, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, count time, particularly when working with video. They count in terms of hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. To see and change those options, we'll go to file, project settings, and focus on the top of this dialogue, display style. The first area is the SMPTE timecode, and I'll get back to that in a second. But you have…

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