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Blue Hatch Marks Below a Layer

  • July 20, 2018
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I am currently working within After Effects, using an imported sequence from Premiere. There is one piece of footage that immediately caught my eye, as it has these odd blue "hatch marks" beneath the clip duration within the timeline (image is attached). When I pre-composed the footage, the first frame is non-existent within that composition, but is still there in my main composition. I'd guess it was shot with a different frame rate or something, but all this footage came from the same camera.

I'm stumped! Any help or advice would be great.  Thanks in advance!

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    Correct answer Roei Tzoref
    as it has these odd blue "hatch marks" beneath the clip duration within the timeline

    it means this layer is time-reversed. you can see how much by right clicking on the layer and time-> time stretch. you will see a minus sign on the stretch factor.

    When I pre-composed the footage, the first frame is non-existent within that composition, but is still there in my main composition.

    not exactly sure what you mean. i've had cases where the cross over from premiere to Ae was not perfect in terms of time stretch and I had to manually trim the layer one frame more.

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    July 20, 2018
    as it has these odd blue "hatch marks" beneath the clip duration within the timeline

    it means this layer is time-reversed. you can see how much by right clicking on the layer and time-> time stretch. you will see a minus sign on the stretch factor.

    When I pre-composed the footage, the first frame is non-existent within that composition, but is still there in my main composition.

    not exactly sure what you mean. i've had cases where the cross over from premiere to Ae was not perfect in terms of time stretch and I had to manually trim the layer one frame more.

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    July 20, 2018

    That's it! Thank you!

    And to your 2nd point, that was it as well - I had to extend the clip back an extra frame in the main sequence, (even though I wasn't using it), and it is now working great.

    Thank you so much for your reply!

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