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Axea
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February 22, 2018
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Adobe After effects how to change frames to seconds?

  • February 22, 2018
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Hello,

can anyone help me with that problem? I am a new user of Adobe After Effects and on the tutorial a lot of people have a seconds instead frames, how can i change it?

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    default2a9fdzqasnsu
    Participant
    March 25, 2021

    Hello Axea,

    i was having the same problem and although i learned to toggle between the TIME counter and the FRAMES counter it did not seem to correct what i was seeing on the TIME LINE METER.  hopefully this will work for you as it did me.

    there is a COMPRESSION SCALE (not the actual name) just above the TIME LINE that was compressed for viewing the animation in greater FRAME detail.   TO CORRECT, just extend the BEGINNING CURSUR and the END CURSUR to the full width of the  TIME LINE and measurements will become MINUTES & SECONDS again.

    see the screen grab attached.     best of luck!   Martin / PhantomMacs


    Roland Kahlenberg
    Roland Kahlenberg
    Legend
    February 22, 2018

    CTRL + Mouse Click on the Timecode Display at the top-left of the Timeline. This action toggles the time display between Frames or Video Timecode.

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    AxeaAuthor
    Participant
    February 22, 2018

    When I clicked CTRL + Mouse Click on that, i got 00000, not the seconds ;/

    Roland Kahlenberg
    Roland Kahlenberg
    Legend
    February 22, 2018

    Ah. I know what you're looking for now. Set your Time Display to Video Timecode. Then zoom deep into your Timeline view until the seconds view changes to frames. The suffix will change from 's" to "f" to denote that you are now zoomed into frame mode view.

    To zoom in and out of the Timeline, use the "=" key and to zoom out, use "-".

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