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  • Project speed/fps to fast. HELP PLEASE !!!

    Posted by Ben Matt on November 20, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Hi everyone,

    I created a project in AE. I took a small MPEG clip of a burning candle. The clip was at 25 fps. I imported it into my AE project, overlaid it on a nice background and wrote some nice text with it. However, when I play back the movie the candle flame are wiggling so fast as if it the speed had been increased. I looked at my project settings and changed my frame rate down from 30fps to 25fps, but it is still doing the same thing. How do I keep my candle moving at the original speed it was recorded ?

    I also made use of particular and the “stars” function, using explosion setting. Even this seems to be at such a high speed when playing back. It totally looks unrealistic.

    So my 2 questions is this : How do I get my candle to burn at the original frame rate it was recorded at ? And using particular, where to I set the speed with which the little stars explode and move ?

    THANKS EVERYONE !!

    Ben Matt replied 17 years, 5 months ago 25,359 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Ben Matt

    November 20, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    AWESOME !!! Thanks for the reply. I will convert the MPEG clip to .Mov and then use it inside my project. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY !!!!

    Have a good one !!

  • Ben Matt

    November 20, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    Yes, that I know. In my case I dont want to use any codec and would rather choose UNCOMPRESSED from the list.

    Thanks for the reminder though!

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