Openshot - I don't understand that time units in the timeline

[Trith]

Hello,

I am very new to openshot. There is something I don't understand. When I look at the timeline, I see that the time is written as x,y where x seems to be the seconds and y seems to be a frame number within that second. Am I correct?
But I want to add keyframes with the same number of frames between them. First is there an easy way to do that?
If I want to do it manually, the way the time is displayed makes the calculations very tedious. Isn't there a way to display the time in frame only or in time only (with rounded seconds for each frame) ?

thanks

[DB83]

Not exactly.

The time is written in a standard way H:M:S:frame number (of next incomplete second)


What I fail to understand is your desire to have key frames at a set interval. The program allows you to add key frames but I would have thought that was to have the frame at a start of a unique part in the edit. Set interval key frames is normally reserved for the encoding process not the editing. I may, of course be wrong on this.

[Trith]

Not exactly.

The time is written in a standard way H:M:S:frame number (of next incomplete second)


What I fail to understand is your desire to have key frames at a set interval. The program allows you to add key frames but I would have thought that was to have the frame at a start of a unique part in the edit. Set interval key frames is normally reserved for the encoding process not the editing. I may, of course be wrong on this.

Oh ok, I saw in a tutorial that if I wanted to modify an effect during a movie at a certain position the right way was to add a keyframe at that position and change the parameters of that frame. Is this correct?
If I want for example to repeat the same effect with a constant time interval or start it at exactly twice a certain interval prsent in another track I thought I would have to do some math to find the correct numbers. So far, the solution I have found was to create a title, give it the duration corresponding to the time I want, copy and paste it multiple times, put the cursor in between each copy and add a keyframe between each of them on the track I am interested in.

[DB83]

It's not a program that I am very familiar with - tried it out for another topic.

But your use could well describe my wording of 'unique' even if you reuse that effect later. Using a calculator to determine the intervals should not be that difficult if you confine yourself, initially to seconds and frames.


There is only one way to test this and try it for yourself.