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  • Fixing a timebase roto mistake?

    Posted by N. Row on January 24, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    I wound up roto-splining a 25fps PAL clip with a timebase of 30 by mistake.

    Now, when I attempt to rectify it, by switching the comp, footage elements and pre-comps to 30 FPS, ALL my roto keyframes adjusted to the clip is ruined and I must start over!?

    The clip before the “fix” either plays short or sped up, no matter what the FPS is set to.

    Is there a way to work around AE abysmal FPS assumptions?

    Any WTF does AE import clips at 30fps even when the project is set to 25fps? Retarded…

    Sam Moulton replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jeff Dobrow

    January 24, 2006 at 5:18 pm

    Not sure on how to help with your keyframes….Out of curiosity can you simply place the 30fps final comp, into a new 25fps comp?

    btw – AE imports as 30fps as a default,…when you change your project timebase ‘display’ settings to 25 or 48 or whatever that only affects the timeline timecode display…hence these settings being under the ‘project setting display’ properties. That setting has nothing to do with footage FPS, only on how seconds are displayed in the timeline.

  • Sam Moulton

    January 25, 2006 at 1:01 am

    try changing your time display to frames. This should solve the finding the exact keyframe problem as long as the footage frame rate matches the comp.

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