• Adobe After Effects

  Comp Length / last frame issue

  Posted by Richard Dale on October 2, 2012 at 4:42 pm

  I’m sure there a simple reason why this is happening but I can’t figure out why.

  No matter what length I set my comp to in seconds I can never jump to the last frame of my movie.

  For example, if I set my comp to 25 frames per second and six seconds long when I press the last frame icon in the RAM preview it jumps to 5 seconds and 24 frames and not six seconds, I can’t even scrub the CTI to six seconds.

  If however I set my comp length to 6 seconds and 1 frame the CTI scrubs to six seconds and pressing the last frame in the RAM preview takes me to six seconds.

  This is fine but then when I export my movie its 6 seconds and 1 frame long. Its not the end of the world but its just annoying when I then bring my movie into Final Cut for editing, I want my Intro created in After Effects to be 6 seconds long exactly.

  What am I doing wrong or is this normal?

  Thanks in advance.

  Richard Dale replied 13 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  October 2, 2012 at 5:09 pm

  AE defaults is set to start the first frame as 0. If you want the last frame to be 6 seconds when you create a new comp you need to change the start frame time to be 1.

  You can change this at any time by selecting a comp and pressing “Cntl + K”

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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  Richard Dale

  October 2, 2012 at 5:14 pm

  Thanks mate very much appreciated. I had seen the start time but I didn’t realise.

  Cheers!!!

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