ASP to AE frame rates

Gnaws · Post by **Gnaws** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:07 pm

This one's killing me.

My ASP project is set up using 12 fps. When I export into an After Effects project (again set for 12 fps) it plays *twice* the speed. At first I thought well, I'll render out my ASP project at 6 fps to compensate. Nope, same result.

wt?

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:20 pm

I'm not at a machine with AE right now, but can't you select the clip and right click and choose "Interpret Footage" and make sure you use 12fps? I know you can interpret footage as to aspect ratio, but I'm not sure about actual frame speed.

Also -- how are you exporting from AS? If single frames I can't imagine how it could possibly come into AE as anything other than your frame rate (IOW, if you have it set for 12fps and export 24 frames of BMP and bring those into AE it HAS to be 2 seconds -- there isn't any other way around it).

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:38 pm

It is known that As treats imported video footage "as is" - it plays every frame at the speed set in the project settings, no matter which frame rate was used in creating the video.

It seems that AE behaves the same.

I reckon your project settings say 12 fps. Try and export and set the rate to 24 fps in your Quicktime options.

Gnaws · Post by **Gnaws** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:17 pm

mkelley wrote:Also -- how are you exporting from AS?

PNG sequence

Gnaws · Post by **Gnaws** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:19 pm

slowtiger wrote:Try and export and set the rate to 24 fps...

I tried that too with the same results. It (obviously) changes the playback in ASP but comes in at the same rate in AE.

Very odd.

Gnaws · Post by **Gnaws** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:24 pm

mkelley wrote:I'm not at a machine with AE right now, but can't you select the clip and right click and choose "Interpret Footage"....

THAT DID IT!! (RMB on PNG sequence in AE Project window and select 'Interpret Footage')

AE was automatically assuming 30 fps no matter what my project settings were in ASP. Go figure.

Thanks MKelley!!!!

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:54 pm

You're welcome (I couldn't remember if Interpret Footage did frame rate as well -- I'll try and remember that in the future in case someone else has this issue).

I need to get AE installed on this machine (it was, but after the crash when I rebuilt this machine I didn't bother since I haven't had occasion to need any post beyond what I can do in Premiere).