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    Help with SMPTE Timecode in Final Cut Pro

    Posted by Linton Davies on December 23, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Hi everyone, could you give me a hand.

    My composer has sent me back .aiff files to sync to a picture cut and has given me these instructions:

    First cue: SMPTE: 294 1 2 84

    2nd Cue: SMPTE: 359 1 3 33

    etc.

    I have no idea what these mean as I’m used to working with TC that’s just HHMMSSFF

    Could you please explain what i do with these SMPTE numbers and how i use them to find the sync points in FCP (Urgently!).

    Thanks for your help guys,
    Linton

    Martijn Scholte replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Christie

    December 23, 2009 at 4:26 am

    That’s definately not smpte time code. Time code is eight digits in hhmmssff and eight digits of user bits which not very many people use. Ask your composer for more details

  • Martijn Scholte

    December 28, 2009 at 1:49 am

    mabey it is the samples sindce midnight? like quicktime can show

    need ENG sound get me 🙂
    http://www.good-sound.nl

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