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timecode in milliseconds
Hello all,
Could someone please tell me of a video player that can display timecode down to the milliseconds? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Frames aren’t good enough?
What do you need to do?
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Timecode, by definition of SMPTE, is in frames.
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A friend is doing a neurological experiment and needs to note time down to the millisecond.
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[adrianna merlucci] “A friend is doing a neurological experiment and needs to note time down to the millisecond.”
that’s not timecode. timecode is by frames, not milliseconds. you’ll need some sort of scientific instrument that can display milliseconds on the video feed.
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And the reason for all of this is that you can’t show anything less than a frame. Now, if you have a high speed camera, that might have built in software that will do both. I seem to recall getting that when I received high speed footage from such cameras.
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It might be possible to find a digital read out millisecond clock that you could include in the picture frame when filming. Similar to shooting a t/c slate but this would be a millisecond clock like they have a racetracks. SEIKO/EPSON makes most of them.
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As Shane said, there is no need (or no sense) to display timecode in milliseconds with normal video. Video is always recorded in frames per second.
With high-speed cams which go up to a 1000 frames or more the frames may not have two digits but more. But this is special and custom.
With audio which records at 48 kHz (or whatever else kHz) you will have quite lot of apps which do show the timecode with milliseconds – or again “audio frames”.Regards
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Even with the milliseconds displayed, it won’t be in any way “accurate to the millisecond” as during EACH recorded frame, 33+ milliseconds will have ticketed-by for the frame’s duration.
Each successive frame of video will be 33+ milliseconds in length.
Standard film and video are very inaccurate and imprecise in recording and working with such high speeds and short time-measurements.
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Uh, Dah… good catch Thax.
A computer monitor should be capable of faster counts but as soon as you tie it into a video application in preparation for window dubs you’d lose it.
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