• Adobe After Effects

  how do you get the time ruler to display seconds instead of frames?

  Posted by Sandra Boeckmann on August 13, 2010 at 9:42 am

  Hi,
  i know it’s a very basic question and i have already searched for answers to solve this problem. however, when i go to
  project settings > display style > timecode base (i set this to 30fps and NTSC to drop frame),
  it still doesn’t display seconds.

  the big yellow number (current time) to the left gives me this:
  0;00;09;09 and in the left it still says “f” as time ruler units.

  i would appreciate your help!

  Dave Johnson replied 16 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dave Johnson

  August 13, 2010 at 7:21 pm

  Forgive me guys, but I’m confused by what I read here …

  0;00;09;09

  It seems to me that first 9 refers to seconds so I don’t understand how one can say that “doesn’t display seconds” … do you mean seconds only with no hours, minutes or frames? I didn’t know that was possible … or desirable for that matter.
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  Dave Johnson

  August 13, 2010 at 8:22 pm

  I know, but if someone accidentally changed their layout to frames-only or one of those other settings, I still don’t see how that could mean that 0;00;09;09 “doesn’t display seconds”.

  It’s ok though … I don’t need to understand … was just confused/curious.

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