From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

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Understanding time

Understanding time

From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

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Understanding time

- [Narrator] You'll see a timecode in several places here in AfterEffects, it's down here, just underneath the Composition window. And if I swap out to Premiere, you'll see it in a few places there, on the Timeline itself and at the bottom of the Program monitor, and in fact if the Source monitor was open here, then you would see it there also. So when you're looking at time, you'll be able to see your project in the same way you're used to seeing it expressed. The first three numbers here are in that way, the hours, minutes and seconds. If you've got numbers in this first one on the left, you're probably in the wrong job. So that's the kind of area where I should imagine that you're really only motion picture people are actually there, but you never know. So what have we got here beyond that? Well we've got frames. And what we're going to do is look here at the frame rate. Imagine a flick book, most of us have seen one of those, you draw or have a series of pictures all of which are…

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