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Stuck in Drop Frame mode
I’m working on a G5 w/ Kona SD, Final Cut 5, and laying off to DVW-M2000. I’m trying to layoff a non-dropframe tape, all of my settings are set to NDF on the Deck and on Final Cut, however when I go to device control and to my RS-422 setting the “Default Timecode” selection is set to DF, but it is greyed out so I can’t change it. So i think the card isn’t letting me do NDF. How do I get it back to letting me switch to NDF? Thanks for any help.
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If your deck and sequence are set to NDF and that is the code you record on the tape then it is NDF.
FCP only ever sends the first frame of TC after that it is all what you have laid out. So you will actually be recording NDF code.
To check it go through some specific frames to find, particularly with numbers ending in 28, 29, 00, 01 etc. If you always see 29 then you know it is drop frame code. There is a specific hour that always drops the 29 in DF code but I can not think of it at this moment.
David
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Only a slight correction on checking if your tape is drop frame vs non drop frame. Drop Frame drops the :00 and :01 frames every minute except for the 10 minute marks (ie. you will always see all the zeros at the 1 hr mark, at the 1 hr 10 min mark, etc.) The easiest to check is either the 00:59:00:00 or 01:01:00:00. If you see the the zeros, you are in non-drop. If it goes from 00:58:59:29 to 00:59:00:02, your tape is drop frame.
The other way to tell is if you can see the time code characters from your machine. If the divider between the seconds and the frames is a semi-colon ( ; ), it is drop frame, if it is a colon ( : ), it is non drop frame.Leigh
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Thanks Liegh. That was the exact information (detail) That I could not remember off hand.
David
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