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Export to QuickTime Movie results in timecode shift
Sorry if this has been asked before, but a quick search around the Googlesphere didn’t seem to help—maybe I’m just phrasing it badly.
I’m exporting some short sequences from Final Cut. They’re 1280 x 720 59.94 8-bit Uncompressed or ProRes 422 HQ timelines, and I’m using “File > Export > QuickTime Movie…” with “current settings,” just video, and making them self-contained. Basically so I get a clean export of the timeline sans audio in the proper format with timecode.
However, when I look at the files’ timecode in QuickTime, instead of starting at hour 1 (01:00:00;00) like they do in Final Cut, they start at 00:59:58;12. Is this some drop-frame vs. non–drop-frame issue? It’s marked as “Timecode: Drop-frame” in the pulldown in QuickTime, and the sequence settings specify a start timecode of hour 1 and are checked as drop-frame as well. Is it some other bizarre thing? I’m having trouble figuring it out and there seems to be a dearth of information.
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4 Replies
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That’s indeed weird. You might try trashing your preferences.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It would appear that QT does not accept 720p59.94 DF. 720p59.94 NDF works just fine.
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Can you just drag the file you exported back into FCP, load it into the viewer and change the start timecode back to 1.00.00.00 using the Modify/Timecode command?
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[John Pale] “Can you just drag the file you exported back into FCP, load it into the viewer and change the start timecode back to 1.00.00.00 using the Modify/Timecode command?
“If you drag the clips back in to FCP, the tc is correct. This is simply a QT reporting error becuase it doesn’t know what to do with 60fps DF tc.
Jeremy
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