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Hello. I´d like to render a sequence in "2"s because I´d like to get a stop motion movement
on my animation. If I got 20 frames, I´d render frames 1-3-5-7-9 etc.. and so on until reaching 19.

If I go to after effects, it will tell me "missing frames" error.
Do I need to rename all my rendered frames (somehow) in order so AE won´t trow an error?

Nuke or Any other node compositor has the option (stop at no errors/read the following frame)
Even the compositor on SI has that option, but it will also produce an error.

Question: Do I need to Batch rename before compositing? If so, what software do you recommend?

If I don´t need to batch rename, how to import correctly into AE?

Thanks team.

Cheers.

In AE try to select first image then check sequence and force alphabetical order

Thank you, that worked!

Just an extra tip -which I used to change frame rates after rendering out at a different framerate - I use Virtual Dub (free)

Render in whatever framerange you use.

If you originally did it at 24 or 30fps, Save your image sequence to a Lossless Largarith or YUV12 video compression into an AVI for Virtual Dub to process
Reload into Virtual Dub - reinterpret the framerate (say to 10 or 15 fps)
Save that video
Import the video into Blender or Premiere or AE to the frame rate you usually use (say 30fps) and timestretch that same video by the devisor you used (/2).

OR change the framerate in Softimage and render it out like that (15fps, eg.), keep Fcurve timestretch in seconds (so it doesn't stretch the animation), render that out and skip the first two or three steps - and it seems all this is relevant since you got AE to work with that.

Thank you for that tip. I´ll try it and repost.