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Current time indicator won’t go to last frame in comp
I finally had a bit of time to start really playing around with AE over the weekend and I noticed that the current time indicator will not go to the last frame of the comp. In other words, if the comp is 1 second long, the last frame that I can get to is 0;29 NTSC (obviously). I try to get there by either moving it or hitting O on a layer that goes to the end – I didn’t try the Goto command yet. I didn’t think this was a big deal until I rendered a couple comps and I see a black frame on the tail of the output file.
Is there a setting somewhere that I can’t find or ???
Thanks in advance
–KTFA
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That’s what I tried to do (in additon to the ‘O’ shortcut key) – it always tops one frame before end of comp. From there I tried a bunch of stuff including Page Down..
–KTFA
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In a 1 second NTSC composition, 0;29 is the last frame.
AE starts counting frames from 0, so frame ’29’ is actually the 30th frame.
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA -
I tried that too – in fact I was trying to make a looping animation and I was indeed able to put the keyframe past the last frame, but I still couldn’t get the current time indicator to go to the last frame.. ie, frame 30 of a 30 frame comp – could only get to frame 29.
It’s not that it was a big problem – the problem came in when I looked at the rendered file – it had a black frame at the end – frame 30 which is when I tried to get there with my current time indicator.
It’s weird and doesn’t make sense..
I’m wondering if I should re-install???
–KTFA
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I kinda thought that was what was happening which is why I didn’t think much of it originally. (Though it looks like there is another frame at the end of the comp). I wonder why I got the black frame at the end of my rendered output.. This doesn’t make sense to me, but could it be because I may have placed my last keyframe 2 frames past the last one for a loop?
–KTFA
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What application are you using to check your rendered video?
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA -
Originally I was just previewing in Windows media player but then I took a closer look at a ram preview and verified what I thought before – black flash so then I loaded it into Premiere and there it was.. black frame.
One other thing I noticed when watching a tuturial today – my current time indicator doesn’t go right up against the end of the comp work area – the blue line.. (ie, frame 29). So I just tried using the go to (clicking on the time code and entering 1 sec. It went.. (but then again, it also goes to 1;02 when the comp is only 1;00 long..
Frustrating! (The black frame at the tail of all of my comps)
–KTFA
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