On 12/19/2006 09:57:47 AM, plutek wrote:
i must confess to some slight confusion about the real meaning of all
the combinations of 29.97, 30, drop, and non-drop, but ardour 0.99.3
doesn't show any 29.97 options for MTC, so am i out of luck here?
with further reading, i believe i have a clearer picture of smpte
formats:
--"30 non-drop" runs at 30 fps, with continuous counting.
--"29.97 drop" is the same as "30 drop", running at 29.97 fps, and
using discontinuous counting such that the frame times don't slip too
much from normal timepieces over longer durations.
--"29.97 non-drop" runs at 29.97 fps, with continuous counting -
usually used in i.e. commercials which, due to their brevity do not get
to the first dropped frame-count in the "drop" format.
so, my understanding is that we have 2 out of the above 3 formats
covered in ardour's MTC options, right? if one wishes to use "29.97
non-drop", it seems not currently possible.
.pltk.
