hey everyone-
thanks for all the responses (good to see you ’round here too, jeremy!)
so this is one of those Fork-in-the-Eye things…
i drag in a quicktime, and it plays with these extra frames i’m seeing.
if i open it in Quicktime, copy all, paste into a new quicktime, then drag THAT one into AE it plays fine.
is this a codec problem? the quicktimes it’s having trouble with are all 23.98 fps Apple Animation quicktimes (thanks, apple!).
changing the frame rate from 24 or 23.98 to 23.976 in both the ‘interpret footage’ settings and in the ‘comp settings’ does absolutely nothing!
at least i get five dollars out of this mess… : )