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Getting a 29.97 timecode on a 29.97 video
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Thanks for helping me out Oliver. And thanks for your patience.
The display is colon, not semicolon. As is the timecode.
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[Yan Desjardins] “The display is colon, not semicolon. As is the timecode.”
If you are seeing only colons, then your timecode is non-drop frame. Why do you think the clip is drop frame?
In order to create a DF version, you will need to edit the clip to a new project (sequence) with DF settings and export a new master file. That will become your new DF version of the clip.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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“Why do you think the clip is drop frame?”
VLC and a subtitling app both say that the original video is DF. I just need for the timecode to reflect this.
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[Yan Desjardins] “VLC and a subtitling app both say that the original video is DF.”
Maybe those apps are both wrong. Often 29.97 is labelled incorrectly as DF by applications.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I think part of the confusion is that it’s unlikely that the other apps are actually reading TC. I don’t believe VLC does. They are only looking at the video frame rate. It’s common for video programs to incorrectly label 29.97 video as DF as a form of shorthand. That’s because they consider 30.0 as NDF since that duration measurement matches clock time. In reality, video is neither DF nor NDF. Those terms purely a function of the counting sequence in the TC numbers. So unless they are specifically identifying the DF value as being timecode, it’s incorrect and meaningless.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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In DF timecode, the numbers will go up one frame at a time, just like NDF. The only difference is that one frame number will be dropped every minute, at the top of the minute (so from :29 to :01…dropping the :00)…except every 10th minute. But all the rest of the frame number counting will go up normally.
If your sequence needs to be DF, and not NDF, you need to go to the sequence in the bin, locate the START column, and change the last separator from colon to semi-colon. THAT will make your sequence drop frame, and then the TC Reader will display it as such.
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GAH! I thought I was in the Avid forum…that is an Avid response, but I can’t see how to edit or delete my post….
sorry
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