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  • Snapping to whole frames

    Posted by Ed Asined on September 23, 2013 at 11:05 pm

    Hello folks,
    I could use a little advice:
    I spent the last week creating an animated title sequence purely in AE at a standard 29.97fps and then right as I was finishing, the client told me that it was going to be shown in the UK and needed to be 25fps.
    I know… I should have asked before starting. Seems like I never learn.

    As there was no actual footage in the sequence I didn’t think it would be a big deal to convert the project from 29.97 down to 25 – but now all of my text layers are not snapping to whole frames. They seem to lie half-way between frames. To fix this I’m having to go in and manually adjust every single layer… and there are a LOT of layers.

    Does anyone know if there is a better way of doing this?
    Was there something I should have done when converting – other than just going into the project settings and changing the frame rate?

    Thanks in advance!

    Todd Kopriva replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Todd Kopriva

    September 24, 2013 at 2:49 am

    Create a 25fps composition. Nest your 29.97fps composition in it. Render and export the 25fps composition. That’s it.

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