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  • Compressor TC does not match QT

    Posted by Aaron Neitz on June 11, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Exporting QT ref movie, bring into Compressor and want to add TC burn.

    QT movie starts at 01:00:00:00

    Compressor is reading it as 00:59:56:10

    Exported a couple different ways. No luck.

    1080/23.98 NDF

    any thoughts?

    Aaron Neitz replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Aaron Neitz

    June 11, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    little arrows in the Preview window of compressor let you adjust the TC.

    But it shouldn’t be doing this in the first place

  • Aaron Neitz

    June 11, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    I thought i was working Richard…. but I was wrong.

    My brain is not up to par today. Been on vacation for 5 days!

    I’m now doing it in FCP. Can’t seem to get compressor to read my TC correctly.

  • Richard Sanchez

    June 11, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    You can adjust your in and out points in the preview windows. How do you adjust the timecode?

    Richard Sanchez
    North Hollywood, CA

    “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

  • Richard Sanchez

    June 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    I’ve had that issue lately too. I find when I include chapter markers for DVD studio pro it tends to screw up the Quicktime Timecode track. When I don’t include markers it tends to be fine.

    Richard Sanchez
    North Hollywood, CA

    “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

  • Aaron Neitz

    June 11, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    Argh, that didn’t work for me. Still a drift in code.

  • Scot Barbour

    June 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Have you tried adding the TC Window Burn in FCP? It’s an Effect under “Video”.

  • Aaron Neitz

    June 12, 2009 at 5:29 am

    that’s what i ended up doing…. but render times are immensely quicker in compressor (working on a feature length project)

  • John Pale

    June 13, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    Can you take the file you exported, bring it back into FCP and modify its timecode to be correct in the Viewer using the Modify/Timecode command?

    Or does FCP read still show the correct timecode and only Compressor gets it wrong?

  • Aaron Neitz

    June 13, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    tried that too John. FCP reads it right…. Compressor reads it wrong.

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