Does anyone know where I can toggle frame number to default to starting at 1 instead of the frame number of TC? When use ctrl alt T I get this gobblydegook. [IMG_5850]

[image] Frame count Flame Questions Then right click with your pen or Meta - Click at the Segment level, select Start Frame and off ya go. [image] 0

Great thanks. I didn’t find this in a search earlier. Strange that my project start frame is 1 and I still get this behaviour though…

Project start frame dictates the default start frame value for anything that doesn’t already have a start frame. Even though that number you’re seeing is obscure, it is most likely, correctly the start frame of that media. My guess is the media in question was exported with frame numbering of “use t…

well yes it is - all tk scans are exported with TC as frame number - are you saying that flame will forever interpret this media with ludicrously large start frame numbers unless we change the scans to have something more sensible? Have we lost the old way forever? I can’t be arsed to right click …

I don’t pretend to know all the ins and outs so maybe I’m missing something that someone else can fill us in on but I think the answer is yes this is how start frame works now. But I can see a few pathways. Aside from doing what you said and getting the film scan frame index / start frame to be mor…

What a massive pain in the hole. In all seriousness, this doesn’t really work for me. I could get the media scanned starting at fr1001 but what about handles? There’s got to be another way. @FrancisBouillon @fredwarren Do you have any insight on how I can work around this?

What you see as a pain, others might see as a more transparent way to view and understand important metadata that often needs to be preserved and passed through in a number of different pipelines. It’s just a matter of perspective depending on your needs.

Hi Jeff, I do appreciate where you are coming from but timecode is in the header and metadata is implicit not explicit - this is absolutely unnecessary - we’ve been working this way for years - it adds nothing. It’s regressive and curtails functionality. Try communicating with a team of artists, a…

[image] johnt: Does anyone know where I can toggle frame number to default to starting at 1 instead of the frame number of TC? When use ctrl alt T I get this gobblydegook. I can’t get into my flame right now (power in the building is out) but when you go to import the clip, maybe under imag…

Found this in the manual - introduced in 2024 with a lovely video by @Jeff Sadly the 2025 prefs look a bit different to this bit that’s pasted into the manual from 2024 ie I can’t seen the button shown below. Media Import The file sequence index is now used to set the Start Frame value: a clip na…

Is this it? [Screenshot 2025-02-12 at 18.16.59] Still when you’re pulling in extra plates they have funky frame ranges - could do with a button to change this on import to start frame. *Apologies for my stream of conscious posts - I exited the beta program for a few years as all my spare time wa…

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