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  DPX Frame Numbers / Timecode are offset by one frame in AE

  Posted by Jon Merrifield on September 6, 2013 at 10:10 pm

  CS6
  MacPro 4,1

  DPX frame numbers can be translated to timecode. This is easy math with the appropriate frame rate.
  Calculators online can help do this, (i.e.: https://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools/timecode_keykode

  frame 84600 (at 23.976fps or 24) should be 1:00:00:00.
  It is in Premiere Pro, it is in SpeedGrade, and in using the calculator above.

  In AE, it is 00:59:59:23

  You try it, make a comp’s starting frame 84600 and see what it is timecode wise at 23.976

  I have tried for the life of me to find some setting or preference that is causing this to no avail.

  Thank you.

  Jon Merrifield
  VFX Supervisor / Creative Director
  PELi Studios

  Jon Merrifield replied 12 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 7, 2013 at 2:40 am

  See this section of After Effects Help regarding how to choose whether frame counting starts at 1 or 0:
  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS4ABD6729-8645-442d-AE7D-FAB64EDFCC4Fa.html#WS2bacbdf8d487e5826e94b6ff12e9290846f-7fff

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  Jon Merrifield

  September 7, 2013 at 3:07 am

  Okay, thanks Todd.
  I’m a retard…
  cheers,
  -Jon

  Jon Merrifield
  VFX Supervisor / Creative Director
  PELi Studios

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