To Set The Frame Rate For Footage; To Loop Footage; To Apply Interpret Footage Settings To Multiple Footage Items - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

When you edit a still-image sequence selected in the Timeline or Composition panel, the individual image that is
currently displayed opens. When you edit a still-image sequence selected in the Project panel, the first image in the
sequence opens.
In the Project panel, Composition panel, or Timeline panel, select the footage or a layer containing the footage. If
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you selected a still-image sequence from the Composition or Timeline panel, move the current-time indicator to the
frame displaying the still image you want to edit.
Choose Edit > Edit Original.
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Edit the footage in its original application, and save the changes.
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Note: If your project is open when you make a change to a footage file, After Effects can reload the new version of the file
while the project is open. To do this, select the footage file in the Project panel, then choose File > Reload Footage.

To set the frame rate for footage

You can change the frame rate for any movie or sequence of still images. For example, you can import a sequence of
ten still images and specify a frame rate of 5 frames per second (fps).
1 Select an item in the Project panel.
Choose File > Interpret Footage > Main.
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3 Select Conform to Frame Rate, and enter a number in the Frames per Second text box.
Note: If you remove 3:2 pulldown from interlaced video footage, After Effects automatically sets the frame rate of the
resulting footage to four-fifths of the original frame rate. When removing 3:2 pulldown from NTSC video, the resulting
frame rate is 24 fps.
See also
"About 3:2 and 24Pa pulldown" on page 101

To loop footage

If you intend to loop visual footage continuously in your project, you need to create only one cycle of the footage in
After Effects.
In the Project panel, select the footage you want to loop.
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Choose File > Interpret Footage > Main.
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3 Type an integer value for Loop and click OK.

To apply Interpret Footage settings to multiple footage items

If you want to ensure that different footage items use the same Interpret Footage settings, copy settings from one item
and apply them to others.
In the Project panel, select the item whose footage interpretation settings you want to apply.
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2 Choose File > Interpret Footage > Remember Interpretation.
Select one or more footage items.
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Choose File > Interpret Footage > Apply Interpretation. After Effects applies the footage interpretation options to
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the selected items.
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