SMPTE timecode for broadcast?

[C. Park seward]

On 1″ Type “C”, timecode is on audio channel three. On standard Betacam, TC is on channel three.

In the service manual for Digital Betacam,for example, the timecode audio track is just called “time code”. It is not given a number.
Park

[Tom Ackroyd]

If you insert edit video after laying anything on A3 you will overwrite it – A3 on Betacam is an FM track “under” the video.

FWIW I too have never heard of putting TC on A3. A2 on a U-Matic yes. But not this.

Tom Ackroyd

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[Tom Ackroyd] “If you insert edit video after laying anything on A3 you will overwrite it – A3 on Betacam is an FM track “under” the video.”

DING DING DING

That’s absolutely correct.
I got so enmeshed with the “oddity” of this query, I forgot something so basic.

Thanks for the “jog”.

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[Dave Felder] ”
We’re doing a conference call with the network tommorrow.”

Its “tomorrow”.

What did the network say about the TC on audio 3?

Inquiring COWS want to know.

[Dave Felder]

I didn’t get to talk to them, but I will and report back here.

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