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12th September 2003, 04:43 | #5 | Link | |
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0:00:01.15 One second and 15 frames (NTSC). Does that position it at frame 45? |
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12th September 2003, 16:51 | #6 | Link |
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Yes, in addition to the time. It is safe to say 00:00:01.15 is 1 second and 15 frames, but not to say 45 frames. The reason for this is that the true frame rate is 29.97 (actually that's approximate, too*) so NTSC uses drop frame timecode. Frame numbers 0 and 1 are dropped whenever needed to adjust the timecode to the actual elapsed time. It is common to drop these frames at the start of every minute not divisible by 10. This gives 18 dropped frame numbers (not frames) every 10 minutes, so that the (29.97 * 10 * 60) 17982 frames are "counted" as 18000.
*Actual NTSC framerate is determined by the color subcarrier frequency (3.579545MHz). Each horizontal line is exactly 227.5 cycles of this frequency, and there are 525 lines per frame. So the framerate is 3579545 / 227.5 / 525 = 29.97002617 That small difference creeps up on timecodes and does result in skipped drop counts. Last edited by mpucoder; 12th September 2003 at 16:59. |
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