change the timecode from frames to seconds?

[sageman99]

For the life of me I cant figure out how to change the timecode from frames to seconds can anyone please give me a pointer. i've been using a calculator and I am on a demo too. Not sure if that would make a difference

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

Ctrl/Cmnd + click on the readout in the timeline panel.

[sageman99]

Thank you so much for taking time to answer Rick. Fantastic. thx. Have a great evening.

[Todd_Kopriva]

Here's a page with more details.

(found with this search)

[jaked42143578]

What does readout look like? Never heard of that term before.

[Roei Tzoref]

the proper term is "current time display"

Timecode and time display units in After Effects

[msauggielyse]

This isn't working for me. No matter how many times I control+click the time code, it still only has options for measuring frames.. not seconds. Thoughts?

[Dave_LaRonde]

msauggielyse  wrote

This isn't working for me. No matter how many times I control+click the time code, it still only has options for measuring frames.. not seconds. Thoughts?

Yeah, you have AE set to display frames and not time code.

[msauggielyse]

It isn't though. I am in time code. I have a choice btwn 0;00;00;00 and 00000. It isn't even showing like 0:00:00:00.. I cannot figure this out and it is driving me crazy. I went to project settings> time code.

[Dave_LaRonde]

Then ctl-click or some other key-click combination on the time display.

Adobe thought it would ber helpful to add this feature.

[msauggielyse]

I have tried all of that. I tried zooming out. Making the timeline longer. All of that.

[Szalam]

There is a bug in the 14.2 update of AE that causes issues with this in some circumstances. See post #14 in this thread.

[hiroyukiu66545217]

Thanks it worked.