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Lost frames out of AfterEffects?
I know the title makes it seem like this question is more appropriate in the AE forum, but bear with me…
I’m working on a project with some heavy FX work, editing in Final Cut Pro. The picture is locked, so I export the shot from Final Cut with the in and out points that are used in the edit. I do my FX, render, and import the render to Final Cut Pro. When I do this, Final Cut consistently imports it one frame too few (i.e. the last frame of the video is not available or viewable to FCP).
I KNOW that the frame is there because if I open the footage in Quicktime, the last frame is viewable. It just doesn’t appear within Final Cut.
I thought that perhaps it was a timecode issue. AE’s default setting is to render the first frame of a composition as frame 0, instead of 1, so I set the project to render starting at 1 instead. I import into Final Cut, same problem — AND, the “media start” still registers as being 0 instead of 1.
Since the video is rendering with all frames intact, I’m figuring this is some kind of Final Cut setting toward which I need to be pointed. Can anyone give me a hand?
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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It could as simple as a drop/non-drop frame issue. Are you cuttting in one format and doing AF in another?
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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Thanks for the response.
I’m cutting in 23.976. But when I import it to AE, my project setting isn’t set to display timecode, it just displays frames. In the project settings window, drop frame timecode is only an option at 30fps NTSC. Since I’m cutting in “24p”, that’s not an option for the timecode I’d be using.
Is there still an issue I could be dealing with as pertains to the timecode? Is it perhaps an issue of the fact that I’m not USING “timecode”?
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> Since the video is rendering with all frames intact, I’m figuring this is some kind of Final Cut setting toward which I need to be pointed. Can anyone give me a hand? < FCP has a weird way of showing last frames. I do not use anything other than NTSC so I can't help you directly but just change the duration of your comp in AE by extending it about 10 frames. Trim it in FCP. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I’m sorry, I said it in an unclear fashion.
Under the project settings, you can set the project to “start numbering frames at” any arbitrary number. The default is to start numbering frames at 0, so in a 30-frame timeline the frames would be numbered 0-29.
I considered the possibility that FCP looked at the last frame of the footage (29, in this example) and mistook it for the duration of the footage. What I was saying is that I’m setting the project settings to start numbering at 1, so that a 30-frame timeline is numbered 1-30.
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