• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting Quicktime from a Drop Frame source clip

  Posted by Rob Larose on August 7, 2009 at 3:47 pm

  Good morning COWs!

  I’ve got a strange problem in FCP 5 that I’ve never seen before, but I’ve also probably never worked with dropframe source material before.

  When I set an in & out and export (or create a subclip and export) from a source clip that has DROPFRAME timecode, the timecode on the exported clip is wrong if it starts AFTER a minute-mark where the dropframe numbers are skipped. It matches what I see if I right-click the duration in the upper-right of the Viewer and set the source clip to “Non-Drop”.

  In other words, FCP seems to calculate the starting timecode of the exported clip as if the source clip were NON-drop. For example:

  MASTER CLIP A has timecode from 0:00:00;00 to 0:04:30;00 (duration of 4 and a half minutes)

  SUBCLIP 1 = 0:00:40;00 to 0:00:50;00 — timecode on the exported clip is right.

  SUBCLIP 2 = 0:01:15;00 to 0:01:30;00 — timecode on the exported clip starts at 0:01:14;28 (2 frames early)

  SUBCLIP 3 = 0:02:15;00 to 0:02:30;00 — timecode on the exported clip starts at 0:02:14;26 (4 frames early)

  Has anyone ever seen this behavior before? Is there anything I can do short of modifying the timecode manually after exporting?

  Thanks for any ideas y’all have got!

  –Rob LaRose
  Imaginary Forces

  Rob Larose replied 16 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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