Frame controls question in Compressor

[Skip Cercelletta]

thank god someone gets it. there is simply no reason today that we need to keep dragging this antiquated system along any longer for this very reason.. confusion! just simply use 24p like they did in the 1930’s and call it a day. it’s not extremely difficult to understand one number 24, not 23.976, not 23.98 which no one is too sure if it’s the same or not. in reality it’s not, a simple math class would confirm this. why must we habitually drag this nonsense along. the english never put themselves through this painful experience 25 in 25 out, done! from this point forward i’m using straight 24p timebase, audio and timeline and finally be known for something in hollywood besides a janitor!!!
ps: i’ve listened to thousands of explanations as to the reasons for this madness from vacuum tubes to boulders but after listening to the reasons i now know why we are still stuck with insane system. philo farnsworth, the “real” father of television, … ripped off, poor man, started with 24 frames, made sense to him because film was 24. unfortunately it worked but didn’t work. the phosphor in those days wouldn’t stay excited in-between frames and would pulse driving people nuts, not to mention epileptics, so he went to 30 of no other reason than to see if that frame rate would cause less of an issue and it did but not enough to solve the problem. long story short fields came into play and that now brings us to the dewey decimal system we labor under today. after the war, that would be the second out of many, muntz sold millions of black and white sets to returning soldiers at about the time color was about to come out. the powers that be at the last moment figured out that the old b&w sets couldn’t understand the color signal and basically saw nothing; sort of like the trillion dollar hubble telecope with a lens they tested in space and not on the ground. any school boy thats ever gone fishing could have understood refraction, apparently not. on with our nightmare. to solve their problem they came up with the idea to clip 3k worth of a frame to trick the black and white tv’s into thinking they were receiving a b&w signal and it worked. fast forward 45 years after we walked on the moon 6 times and drove cars around, we are still stuck with this fairy tail that americans can’t view hd without a couple thousands of a frame takin’ out… sweet jesus help us all.