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Creating a countdown in AE – 29.97 drop frame questions.
Hello
I’m creating a countdown in AE CS4 that will be one minute long. I have the numbers counting down, and a nifty background made. But this has to be frame accurate and our editors use 29.97 as the standard.
I have a row of “tick marks” which disappear one at a time to count the individual frames. After they all are gone, it starts all over again, once each second.
My countdown is a 30-frame loop but on a 29.97 frame timeline. At about the 523rd second, the countdown and the real frames are out of sync by one frame.
What should I do to fix this? My brain is cramping trying to figure this out.
thanks
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[Steve Dorsey] “My countdown is a 30-frame loop but on a 29.97 frame timeline. At about the 523rd second, the countdown and the real frames are out of sync by one frame.”
You’re probably seeing the difference between drop frame and non-drop frame time code.
This link explains it pretty well.
Walter Soyka
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Yes.
I already know what drop frame is. (But that’s a great link, thanks for posting! I’ll refer it to others who ask). But how would I accurately show a timecode countdown in drop-frame time?
Thanks
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523 – that was a typo.
Thanks for the info – very helpful!
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