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  • Importing Image sequence out of time (with correct framerate)

    Posted by Zac Hix on January 16, 2017 at 1:47 am

    I rendered out a 115 frame .PNG image sequence from Blender at 24fps. At 24fps, the length of the clip is about 4 seconds

    When I import this into either AE or PR, after making sure that the sequence / composition is set to 24fps, the image sequence only lasts about 3 seconds.

    All frames are there (at least they appear to be) but it seems to be playing faster. For example when looking through the files, what’s supposed to be on frame 0013.png plays on frame 10 in AE. There are 115 frames in all, but AE says the last frame is on 92

    Again, I have quadruple checked that the composition settings are at 24fps, and that things like interlacing are turned off, but I really have no clue why it’s doing this.

    EDIT: For some reason in PR, in the list of clips, all the image sequences say 29.97 under frame rate. is there any manual way to change this? Neither Premiere or After Effects offers any options when import image sequences

    Leo Maverick replied 7 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Tero Ahlfors

    January 16, 2017 at 5:00 am

    If the image sequence you import doesn’t have metadata for framerate it will be imported with the indeterminate time base setting you can choose in the preferences.

  • Tero Ahlfors

    January 16, 2017 at 5:01 am

    Or you can set it in the interpret footage settings.

  • Zac Hix

    January 16, 2017 at 5:42 am

    Ok, thank you. I managed to figure it out pretty soon after I posted this. Tried to edit it, but I guess I didn’t save.

    I had to manually right click and go to Interpret footage > Main and set it to “Assume the framerate” of 24fps. In PR it was right click > Modify > Interpret footage.

  • Leo Maverick

    February 23, 2019 at 11:44 am

    I’m having this same problem. I’m trying to export some footage as png sequence to work on c4d, but I realize that the png framerate is absolutely out from the original sequence and it’s just breaking my workflow.
    How could I set this metadata to the png sequence on adobe premiere png sequence export? It’s already set to use the same frame rate as the original footage

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