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Setting up Time Configuration

Setting up Time Configuration - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting up Time Configuration

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we'll begin by checking out the Time Configuration. And that's a button at the very bottom of the main window next to the transport controls for the track bar or timeline. It's a little clock with a gear next to it, Time Configuration. Click that to open the dialog where we can set up our frame rate, and it's got some archaic acronyms here, NTSC and PAL, and also a button labeled Film. I recommend that you stay away from these three buttons, because they are either antiquated or ambiguous. NTSC is the former analog television standard from the USA. If you choose NTSC then 3ds Max runs at 30 frames per second. But that is actually inaccurate because NTSC color television runs at 29.97 frames per second. Only the ancient black and white NTSC standard from the 1950s actually ran at 30 FPS. 3ds Max is not capable of a fractional frame rate. So if you're working in a broadcast environment, and that may cause some headaches where 3ds Max runs at 30, but all of your other footage and…

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