[Greg Becker]

Okay. Tried importing a clip captured in a non drop frame project into a drop frame project and it reverts to drop frame code. Looks like Premiere only captures the start frame and the number of frames for each clip when its captured. Then timecode is generated “on the fly”. So if the project is drop frame all of the clips show drop frame code. If the project is non drop frame, all of the clips (even if they are the same ones imported from a drop frame project) show non drop code. Seems like it would be easy for the programers to add a flag that sets the clip to the right timecode type. Maybe version 2.0? Doesn’t help me now for my project that’s an off line edit with mixed timecode types. Looks like I’m moving the project over to the Avid room.

[Greg Becker]

Thanks Ray. So it’s an all or nothing proposition, either the project is drop frame or non-drop frame. Of course my project has a mixture of both. I looked at the timecode menu item before, this will change the entire timecode number associated with the clip. It does not appear to change between drop frame and non drop frame tc. I’m going to try importing a non drop frame clip into a drop frame project to see what happens. I’ll try the reverse as well. Greg