frames to seconds

[Daijard]

I want to change from frames to seconds in the scale of the timeline.

[Andrew Yoole]

Go to File/Project Settings and choose the time format.

[yenaphe]

You can also dynamicaly change it by ctrl-clicking (cmd-click on Mac) the timestamp in the timeline panel.

[Andrew Yoole]

Good shortcut, yenaphe, thanks! 

[yenaphe]

Your welcome

Glad to help !

[Daijard]

I do that but it always appears in frames. It never shows the "s" from seconds.

[Andrew Yoole]

Not sure I understand, Daijard.  If your composition has a very short duratio then you'll still see frames denoted in the timeline.

Perhaps you could post a screen grab of the problem.

[Daijard]

I saw in youtube a tutorial of after effects that it shows on the timeline: 1s, 2s , 3s, etc. and i wanted to see the same in my timeline.

my video has a duration of 2 seconds. Maybe is too short and i have to put a longer video to see it that way.

[Andrew Yoole]

Daijard wrote:

Maybe is too short and i have to put a longer video to see it that way.

Yes, that's correct.  Your timeline is so short that AE can still segment it in frames.  If you create a 30 second timeline and zoom out sufficiently, you'll see seconds clearly denoted.

[richanie]

this! thumbs up*

[yenaphe]

Maybe you have to zoom in your timeline, but the very begin of it should say "0s" anyway.

If you just want to be sure in which mode you are:

The first pic have it's duration in frames, the second in seconds, the third in feet.

[Daijard]

Ok, thanks a lot for the tip. I didn´t know what was the problem.

[C0ND3RS]

Try clicking the Toogle Switches/Modes button, I was hours looking for an answer online, and then I just clicked the Toogle Switches/Modes button and it worked.

The Toogle Switches/Modes buttons is this one:

I hope it worked for you.

[satwant_singhk28018658]

3 frames is how many sec ?

[P.M.B]

It depends on what you have your fps (frames per second) set to.  The most common presets are 29.97 fps & 23.97 fps.

So math is not my strongest area but I think if your composition is set to 29.97fps the 3 frames will be approximately one tenth of a second.