1) After Effects is set to display time as time code by default. Time code is a method of representing frames as time units and is displayed in the form of 00;00;00;00 (00 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds 00 frames).


2) To change the time display method to frames, go to project settings in the file menu at the top.

3)You can see that the default setting for time display style is set to timecode.

3) Check frames in time display style and confirm.

4) You can see that time is displayed as frames.


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