video at 23.98 Timecode at True 24

[Rafael Amador]

[Bouke Vahl] “The sound IS the TC in this case.”
Hi Bouke, yes, I understand that audio files doesn’t need a Time-base because they already have a sample-rate, so TC is not a real need (in fact quite often is a real complication).
I thought that this Protool file might have an associated TC track or some how could be added.
Without a proper TC track I don’t think the FC’s TC Reader could works.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Bouke Vahl]

well, that is where my app. comes in.
It translates the audio tc (LTC) into QT tc.
But, when generating the QT tc track, it needs to know the timebase.
And that went wrong in this case. (inserting 24 fps TC in a 23.976 clip will drift of course…)

Bouke

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[Rafael Amador]

[Bouke Vahl] “And that went wrong in this case. (inserting 24 fps TC in a 23.976 clip will drift of course…)”
Yeah, this discrepancy is always a mayor source of troubles.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jason Watkins]

Thanks for all the help and suggestions! I found a hack workaround:
Import the .MTS to FCP, conform it to 24 in Cinema Tools, drop it into a 24 frame sequence, apply to correct TC to the sequence time, and modify the sequence to playback 99.9% slower. It works. Frames blend horribly, but it works. Also, FCPauxTC works as well, either modifying the original quicktime, or exporting a self contained quicktime. Thanks again, Jason

[Rafael Amador]

[Jason Watkins] “Frames blend horribly, but it works.”
Uncheck “Frame Blending”.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

i still don’t understand why you are trying to force video to playback at audio tc. it should be the other way around as audio is way more flexible.

Also, why didn’t you just make a 24.0 timeline and add a slug and a tc generator to match the audio tc?

Then you simply mask out what you don’t need and copy paste it in to your 23.976 sequence.

That would keep video @ 23.98 but display the 24.0 tc.

Jeremy