BergVision
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Drop or Non Drop?
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fevercity
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Shoot non-drop.
Either way, no frames are actually 'dropped', it's just math trickery to keep broadcast schedules running real-time.... and some pretty boring math at that.
Graphics and audio people I've worked with were always happier getting non-drop frame timecode. You should only worry about drop when you need to deliver a broadcast air-master for a network or station.
Everyone works differently and I'm sure someone else here will chime in. Here's this from ButtonPusher.TV:
"If you jog through, frame-by-frame, at a regular minute turnover on a piece of DF timecoded media, you will see the count go from 00;01;59;29 to 00:02:00:02 on the very next frame. No content has been dropped, just frames. Do that 54 times an hour and you get 108 frames dropped out of the count so that at the end of a real-time hour a DF timecoded hour come out equal.
So, after all that the question always gets asked: So what? Who cares about all this precision with timecode and time of day? Broadcasters. Remember they live and die by the clock. They sell time. So everything must be precise. Drop frame code is how they acheive that."
Either way, no frames are actually 'dropped', it's just math trickery to keep broadcast schedules running real-time.... and some pretty boring math at that.
Graphics and audio people I've worked with were always happier getting non-drop frame timecode. You should only worry about drop when you need to deliver a broadcast air-master for a network or station.
Everyone works differently and I'm sure someone else here will chime in. Here's this from ButtonPusher.TV:
"If you jog through, frame-by-frame, at a regular minute turnover on a piece of DF timecoded media, you will see the count go from 00;01;59;29 to 00:02:00:02 on the very next frame. No content has been dropped, just frames. Do that 54 times an hour and you get 108 frames dropped out of the count so that at the end of a real-time hour a DF timecoded hour come out equal.
So, after all that the question always gets asked: So what? Who cares about all this precision with timecode and time of day? Broadcasters. Remember they live and die by the clock. They sell time. So everything must be precise. Drop frame code is how they acheive that."