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AE displays wrong frame at cut points
I imported a Premiere sequence into After Effects so each shot/cut should match my edit exactly. Yet oftentimes, if I place my playhead at a cut, instead of showing the first frame of the clip I’m on it will display the last frame of the previous clip. Sometimes it will even display nothing so that there is a frame of black at the cut. This can sometimes be fixed if I extend the second clip back a frame underneath the first clip, but sometimes this doesn’t work. This seems to happen more frequently if a clip is time remapped/stretched.
Sometimes there is nothing that can done to fix it. Even if I delete the first clip completely, the last frame of that clip will still display where the first frame of the second clip should be! Even though it’s completely gone from the timeline! When I render the glitch shows up too, so it’s not an illusion.
I’ve experienced this many times in the past, and it’s super annoying. Especially when I’ve “locked” an edit in Premiere and then my cuts sporadically move a frame or two in AE.
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The AE out points are inclusive like in Premiere. If you zoom in the timeline you’ll see a small highlighted line after the playhead. That is the frame you are looking at.
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I am aware that out points are inclusive. If I zoom in as far as I can the playhead is exactly on the cut. So it should show the first frame of the second clip. And that still wouldn’t explain how AE displays the last frame of the first clip even when I delete the first clip.
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Have you tried purging your media cache? You might be experiencing a glitch where the cached frame is being displayed, and not the actual footage in the timeline.
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Thanks Blaise. Yeah I tried that too. Still doesn’t work.
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Hmm. This is a weird suggestion, but try changing your Preview resolution (from Full to 1/2, for example). I had a crazy weirdo issue this week with a sequence where I would animate a mask, but the changes wouldn’t show up on the Previews unless I forced AE to re-render at a different rez by changing the preview rez; and the REALLY weird part was that if I changed it back to a rez that I had used already, it would revert to whatever version of the clip had been showing when I last used that resolution. So I had basically four chances (one for each resolution) at previewing any change before I was hosed.
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Tried that too. No dice.
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Please show us full screenshots Ae vs Premiere. Show the Same timecode and different result. Make sure the whole U.I is visible. You can drag and drop here or copy paste from clipboard.
Roei Tzoref
After Effects Artist & Instructor
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Sure thing. You can see the same time code on both, and zoomed in on the timeline all the way. It’s a shot reverse shot. You can see in Premiere that the first shot is of the female, and the second is of the male. Yet in AE when on the first frame of the second shot, it’s still showing the female.
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very strange. what happens one frame after? does it then show the next layer?
you should try to isolate the problem as much as you can. only one cut, 2 layers with speed changes/without – see where it breaks. is the pixel motion related? does this happen on 2015.3? move layer 23 (0438) above layer 22 (0437) ? is it o.k now? btw it is better to work staircase up and not down in a compositing app so if you want just select all the layers from bottom to top and cut and paste, and it will paste them in reverse order.
Roei Tzoref
After Effects Artist & Instructor
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I tried everything you mentioned and more. Nothing worked until I finally found a crazy weird solution:
First I duplicated my entire comp and deleted everything except for that second clip with the incorrect frame. Even isolated within this new comp, the clip still was still stuck with that single frame showing the girl. The frames before and after were correct. Then I dropped a black solid beneath the clip and BOOM! The frame was now correct. So I dropped this new comp back into my original… and the frame was still wrong! It wasn’t until I deleted the original bad clip below it that the frame finally displayed correctly in my original comp.
I can’t explain how or why any of this happened. It seems like something was being cached incorrectly, but I cleaned out my cache multiple times when trying various solutions and it never helped.
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