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  Quicktime TC question

  Posted by Y12video on May 2, 2006 at 7:17 pm

  I know this isn’t an FCP questions, but can anyone tell me how/if you can embed timecode into a Quicktime movie? If so, how?

  Thanks.

  Y12video replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Leigh Jewell

  May 2, 2006 at 8:06 pm

  It mostly depends on the Codec that you are using. Some codecs such as the uncompressed and dv codecs will allow timecode to be embedded.
  The easiest way to do this is to put your video into a sequence then export that sequence. If the codec allows for embedded timecode, the timecode will be what the sequence was set for (ie. hour 1 in drop frame mode).
  A quick check to see if the codec you are using will allow timecode is to set the sequence timeline to some weird number. Bring the exported movie back into FCP. If the movie shows the timecode at 1:00:00:00 and that isn’t the code your sequence started at, the codec doesn’t allow for an embedded timecode.

  I hope this makes sense.

  (You aren’t talking about a burned in window – ie. timecode burned into the picture, right? Just checking.)

  Leigh Thomas
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  Y12video

  May 2, 2006 at 8:08 pm

  Thanks. Yeah, I need it to be a HDV 1080 50i PAL QT MOV, so I guess it won’t work. No, I don’t need BITC.

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