• Adobe After Effects

  Convert comps from 24 / 29.97 fps into 60 fps without changing layer start and end points

  Posted by Shahid Raza on August 2, 2018 at 11:10 am

  I have a couple of mixed frame rates in my comps:

  Main comp: 29.97 fps
  Main comp > precomps: 29.97 fps
  Main comp > precomps > precomps: 24 fps

  I’d like to change all of these comps / precomps to 60 fps so I can render at 1080p60 instead of 1080p30 for smoother animations.

  Now the problem I’m having is with frame durations and start/end positions in time with layers inside the time-remapped precomps (I think it’s just these as far as I can see).

  

  I’m not trying to slow footage down or anything as I don’t have actual video clips, these are just precomps of static graphics.

  Here’s the clip at 29.97fps and the layers within it are stacked like so:

  

  Here’s the same clip with change in frame rate to 60 fps:

  

  If you look at the layers start and end points, they’ve shifted along and the layer that started at frame 3 is now off the screen.

  How can I stop the layer start and end points to remain untouched? I’ve got 100 odd layers to go through like this.

  Is there a method via a script? Or will I just have to update the frame duration to 6 instead of 3 and update my expressions to target 0, 2 and 4 instead of 0, 1 and 2 frames for the time-remapping?

  Walter Soyka replied 8 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  August 2, 2018 at 3:49 pm

  If you next your compositions in a 60 fps comp (and make sure they aren’t set to preserve the frame rate of nested comps), all your timing will be the same, but at a higher frame rate.

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  Walter Soyka

  August 2, 2018 at 5:09 pm

  [Shahid Raza] “I’d like to change all of these comps / precomps to 60 fps so I can render at 1080p60 instead of 1080p30 for smoother animations.”

  You could also change the render settings to render at a different frame rate than the native comp frame rate, like in this image:

  

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