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dgraf80
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January 18, 2018
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After Effects completely changes fps and speed of Screenrecording

  • January 18, 2018
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Hi there,

i have the problem that After Effects completely changes the frame rate and overall timing of screen recordings from Android. I tried all the major screen recording apps to make sure it's not that but the results are always the same. I'm trying to record a video of using an app for a client

The footage is recorded with 25 fps and when i watch the clips on my mac with regular video players everything is correct.

But as soon as i import the footage into AE, it changes the fps to 13,318. However the main problem is that it changes the entire timing of the clip. It simply deletes moments where nothing happens in the video and drags out the parts with movement, to fill out the length of the video and changes everything to slow motion.

I can of course change the frame rate manually which means the movement speed itself is correct again but the stills in between are still gone.

I tried to find info on this but came up empty. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?

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Correct answer Mike_Abbott

Download and use Handbrake : https://handbrake.fr/

to convert your source movie from variable frame rate to fixed framerate.

2 replies

Dave_LaRonde
Dave_LaRonde
Inspiring
January 18, 2018

Break down and buy a good screen capture application, okay?

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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January 18, 2018

If you are planning to edit video you need to make sure you start with video and not a specialized media file that will only play in certain media players. I'm on a mac and use Screenflow and I think that is the best. The ScreenFlow files are amazingly small and it will render several formats and publish directly to YouTuber and Vimeo. If you are doing a lot of screencasting the ability to edit and add effects and overlays is pretty important.

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dgraf80Author
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January 18, 2018

I am working with .mp4 video files and i needed to capture an android screen, not my mac so that wasn't the issue.

Mylenium
Mylenium
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January 18, 2018

This has n othing to do with AE. Many screen recording apps use variable framerates and fill in static sections with just a single frame with infinite duration. AE can't handle that. You have to properly export a constant framerate clip from whatever apps you use to record.

Mylenium

    Mike_Abbott
    Mike_AbbottCorrect answer
    Legend
    January 18, 2018

    Download and use Handbrake : https://handbrake.fr/

    to convert your source movie from variable frame rate to fixed framerate.

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    dgraf80Author
    Participating Frequently
    January 18, 2018

    I had made sure to record them with a fixed framerate of 25fps but somehow that didn't work either. I also had tried to convert them with another program before with no result but now i gave handbrake a try too and it actually seems to work! Thanks for the tip!

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