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Drop Frame Non Drop Frame
Recently moved to MC 5. I don’t understand how sometimes the sequence will be in (;)non dropframe and sometimes it will be in (:)dropframe. And how do I control which one I want? I get an error that won’t let me record to my dv cam deck
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Any sequence can be either drop or non-drop frame. To change the mode of the sequence you simply need to change the starting timecode of the sequence. First either find or create a bin-view with “START” (or some variation, I’m not in front of a Media Composer at the moment). The industry standard for Dropframe codes always contain semi-colons (;) while the Non-Dropframe codes contain just colons (:). This is actually easy to remember as the Dropframe code has the punctuation that drops down while the Non-Dropframe that doesn’t drop down. Modify the timecode as you need it and hit enter but you must click on the affirmative when it asks you if you want to change the starting timecode as the default is to not change the code.
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Just right click your composer window, go to info and change it to drop frame.
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What if you try to change the sequence start timecode to drop frame, but it snaps back to non drop. Even when I modified the clips to be in drop frame and tried to change the start timecode (and clicked yes please change) but it always snaps back to the (:). I’m in a 23.98 project, and this is going out to broadcast, so it HAS to be drop. Any help at all would be lovely. Thanks!
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