• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Help with SMPTE Timecode in Final Cut Pro

  Posted by Linton Davies on December 23, 2009 at 12:58 am

  Hi everyone, could you give me a hand.

  My composer has sent me back .aiff files to sync to a picture cut and has given me these instructions:

  First cue: SMPTE: 294 1 2 84

  2nd Cue: SMPTE: 359 1 3 33

  etc.

  I have no idea what these mean as I’m used to working with TC that’s just HHMMSSFF

  Could you please explain what i do with these SMPTE numbers and how i use them to find the sync points in FCP (Urgently!).

  Thanks for your help guys,
  Linton

  Martijn Scholte replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Christie

  December 23, 2009 at 4:26 am

  That’s definately not smpte time code. Time code is eight digits in hhmmssff and eight digits of user bits which not very many people use. Ask your composer for more details
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  Martijn Scholte

  December 28, 2009 at 1:49 am

  mabey it is the samples sindce midnight? like quicktime can show

  need ENG sound get me 🙂
  http://www.good-sound.nl

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