This is a bit long, but PLEASE PLEASE read it - I'm desperate and at the end of my very tattered and exhausted rope...
So I shot a feature in 24fps and used Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to capture the footage. Since it was the closest to 24fps, I chose 23.976 for capturing. I edited in 23.976, so I figured one is supposed to, when finished editing, export the movie as 23.976. So, why, when I play the exported clip in a media player (be it windows media player, Divx, VLC, etc.) is the timecode off?
Example: I find a frame in the movie on the adobe premiere timeline and the timecode reads 01:05:08. Then I play the exported clip in a media player, locate the same frame, and the media player tells me the timecode is 01:05:05. It's pretty much 3 seconds off no matter what part of the movie it's in.
Why is this happening? It just made sense to export it it as the same frame rate as it was captured and edited under. Am I supposed to export it at true 24 instead of 23.976? Should I export it as 30fps (or 29.97)?
The issue I'm getting is, I sent the clip to a composer to do the music score. He scored according to how it played in his media player, so when I got the score back from him and dropped it into the timeline, of course it was off as it was meant for the "media player timecode" instead of the different timecode I get in the timeline. I could always just save the exported film clip, exported audio clip and exported music clip and send it off to a dubhouse to let them put it together, but I myself can't do it because of this problem. Please help if you can, I'm feeling rather hopeless right now (movie has taken 3 years to make and it won't let me go...).
So I shot a feature in 24fps and used Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to capture the footage. Since it was the closest to 24fps, I chose 23.976 for capturing. I edited in 23.976, so I figured one is supposed to, when finished editing, export the movie as 23.976. So, why, when I play the exported clip in a media player (be it windows media player, Divx, VLC, etc.) is the timecode off?
Example: I find a frame in the movie on the adobe premiere timeline and the timecode reads 01:05:08. Then I play the exported clip in a media player, locate the same frame, and the media player tells me the timecode is 01:05:05. It's pretty much 3 seconds off no matter what part of the movie it's in.
Why is this happening? It just made sense to export it it as the same frame rate as it was captured and edited under. Am I supposed to export it at true 24 instead of 23.976? Should I export it as 30fps (or 29.97)?
The issue I'm getting is, I sent the clip to a composer to do the music score. He scored according to how it played in his media player, so when I got the score back from him and dropped it into the timeline, of course it was off as it was meant for the "media player timecode" instead of the different timecode I get in the timeline. I could always just save the exported film clip, exported audio clip and exported music clip and send it off to a dubhouse to let them put it together, but I myself can't do it because of this problem. Please help if you can, I'm feeling rather hopeless right now (movie has taken 3 years to make and it won't let me go...).