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Frame

A single still image in a sequence; the smallest unit of time in a video.

A frame is one still image in a video. Played in quick succession at the project's frame rate, frames create the perception of continuous motion.

Frames are the fundamental unit of time in GenMotion. Instead of thinking in seconds, animations are expressed as functions of the current frame — for example, fading in over frames 0 to 30. Because motion depends only on the frame number, the result is fully deterministic: frame 240 always looks the same.

See also: Frame Rate, Timecode.

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A frame is one still image in a video. Played in quick succession at the project's frame rate, frames create the perception of continuous motion.

Because motion is expressed as a function of the current frame, the result is fully deterministic — a given frame always looks the same, so previews and exports match exactly.

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