6 Replies Latest reply: Sep 10, 2014 9:17 AM by Szalam RSS

    Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue

    perfectblue Community Member

      In the project settings I have specified to use a time code 00:00:00:00 where the timeline should display the hours, minutes, or seconds in the footage. However, the timeline is still showing frames as you can see below. What am I doing incorrectly?

       

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        • 1. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
          Rick Gerard CommunityMVP

          Your timeline is zoomed way in. Either expand it or change the length of the comp so that you can actually have minutes seconds and frames available.

          • 2. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
            perfectblue Community Member

            Thanks for the help Rick. I am still experiencing issues however. For instance in the composition settings I entered in 0:00:00:30 to have a 30 second composition. The first problem I notice is when I go back to the composition settings, or view the timeline, it shows one minute six seconds ( 0:00:01:06) for the duration of the comp, even though I specified  0:00:00:30.

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            The second problem I am having is I add clip to the timeline that is only 7 seconds long. For some reason it it stretches the clip through the whole timeline of the comp, it shouldn't as it its only 7 seconds.

            shot 2.png

             

             

            Thanks for your feedback.

            • 3. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
              Szalam CommunityMVP

              perfectblue wrote:

              The first problem I notice is when I go back to the composition settings, or view the timeline, it shows one minute six seconds ( 0:00:01:06) for the duration of the comp

              No it doesn't. It's showing one second and six frames.

              • 4. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
                Todd_Kopriva Adobe Employee

                > even though I specified  0:00:00:30

                That is 30 frames---which is one second and six frames at your frame rate of 24fps.

                 

                The problem is that you think that you're specifying seconds, but you're actually specifying frames.

                 

                30 seconds is like this:

                 

                0:00:30:00

                • 5. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
                  perfectblue Community Member

                  Thanks guys for pointing out my error. One last question regarding the time ruler. Is there a short cut or someway to cut the compositions duration based on where your pointer is in the timeline? For instance, in the picture below I would like to cut the composition to 7 seconds. Is there a way to do this based on the current time indicator without having to go into composition settings and manually changing it to 0:00:07?

                   

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                  • 6. Re: Converting Time Ruler to Seconds Issue
                    Szalam CommunityMVP

                    Press "n" to trim the end of the work area to your CTI (pressing "b" trims the beginning to the CTI).

                    Then right-click on the work area bar and choose to trim the comp to the work area.