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Should 15-sec spot reach 15 on the timeline? Or 14.29?
Sorry for the newb question. But this has always confused the hell out of me.
Should a 15-second spot run up to the 15 mark on the timeline?
Or should it run to 14.29?I ask because there is a slot for a frame belonging to zero in PPRO and in AE.
I know this spot probably really belongs to “1” on the timeline,
but the CTI in both PPRO and AE highlight the frame to the right of the number.I just sent some spots to ABC and they are telling me they are a tad short.
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The last frame should be a timecode value of 14:29. Frames are inclusive. So a :00 frame has a duration of 1 frame, so the spot will start at :00.
So a couple of questions. Are you counting timecode and not frames? Is this NDF or DF timecode? What is the starting TC number?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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That’s what I’ve been doing. Ending a :30 at 29:29, and a :15 at 14:29.
I’m using Timecode. I assume it’s drop frame, but does it matter for a such a short video?
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So, if my spot is :15 seconds long, should it end here like this?
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Okay, thanks.
I’ve been doing it wrong all this time then.
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You can see the duration of your in/out selection on the lower right of your source and program windows.
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The “00:00:00:00 is a frame too” makes it easy.
But now to add to the confusion, the OUTPOINT is at 15 round, on ‘some’ systems.
In the old (lineair bay) days, and outpoint meant ‘up to’, NOT ‘up and including’.
So for some forms of notation, you should write down ‘TC out’ as 00:00:15:00 where that frame actually is not there.
(This is why some forms say ‘last image’ instead of’ TC out’)
But it really depends…Bouke
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Wow, what a fantastic tip! I always thought that the timecode in the lower left and right of the Program Window was just copy of the playhead location. I never really looked it that closely before.
That will come in very handy.2013 Intel MacPro
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64 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC
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