Reducing frames by 25%.

tjbrunetto

Hi Esoteric Team,

Bit of a blunder on my end but I exported my creatures and my player at different operating frame rates from the playback tool. The player was operating at 24 frames per second while the creatures were all animated at 30 frames per second. I need to synch them up so they all operate at a smooth 24 frames per second, a 25% reduction to every frame for the creatures. Is there an easy way to do this? I am currently grabbing every frame and multiplying it by .75 and manually scrubbing it to its location in the timeline, taking a while...

Tim

tjbrunetto

Nate

You can select all the keys and drag the edge of the selection. Hold shift to disable frame snapping.

Keys are stored using time in the JSON data. I'm away from the keyboard now, but I think you can export your 30 fps project to JSON (where frame 30 will be 1s). Create a new project and set the timeline FPS to 24 in the playback view, then import the JSON data (1s should be imported as frame 24). This may give you frames that are on fractional frames.

tjbrunetto

Nate appreciate the feedback, will be trying this right now. I adjusted one creature already using fractional frame adjustments and manually moved every single keyframe. It took a while!

EDIT:

Unfortunately I have tried a bunch of different variations of the mentioned import of the JSON Data into a new project and it seems to not want to adjust the frames for me. The frames are still in the exact same positions as when I was animating at 30FPS even after I adjust the playback to 24 fps before import.

Nate

Sorry for the delay, I was traveling.

I tried it out and it works as I described previously. Be careful to uncheck New project when you are doing the data import. If you let it create a new project, you'll lose the FPS you set in the playback view (you'll actually get the default timeline FPS set in the settings). To be clear:

Export JSON (ctrl+E).
New project (ctrl+shift+N).
Set FPS in playback view (alt+P in animate mode).
Import Data (alt+F,D), choose JSON you exported, uncheck New project.
Success!

tjbrunetto

Attempting this now, If I get this right I will be very happy. I did three creatures on Friday manually moving every frame and it took me over 3 hours.

Ok so I thought I did it exactly as you explained but clearly I must have skipped a step somewhere because it worked for me, this is going to save me soooooooooo much time, thanks man!