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Hi All,

Does anyone know if DF timecode is able to be encoded with the video? Premiere does this with ease for both timecodes, however, Resovle15 is under question...

I would switch if that option was available...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alex

I don't have any 30 fps material to test with. I use 24 for everything.

blade80 wrote:Does anyone know if DF timecode is able to be encoded with the video? Premiere does this with ease for both timecodes, however, Resovle15 is under question...

Yes, embedded 29.97DF timecode is possible with Resolve.

I would do a test: bring in (say) a 10-minute test video, make sure the session timeline is 29.97DF, export it as 29.97DF, then bring it into a 3rd-party program like Premiere and check it. Visible timecode should be in the standard 00;00;00;00 format.

Thank you all!


How can I set session timeline to 29.97DF?

blade80 wrote:How can I set session timeline to 29.97DF?

Project Settings:
Timeline Frame Rate
[] Use drop frame timecode.

This cannot be changed once a project timeline settings have locked with the import of media and creation of a timeline.

Drop Frame timecode is displayed as HR:Mn:Sc;Fr and is generally only valid for 29.97 interlaced timelines and the industry flag to indicate DF in a display is the semicolon between the seconds and frames.
Generally there is no .1 or .0 appended after the frames to indicate field 1 and field 2 in current usage as most displays would not be able to accommodate the extra characters. And because the use of progressive is so widespread now, hardly anyone would know what to do with it. Computer codecs and processing software programs are also notoriously bad with field dominance to start with, since this is a time-domain that was the first priority in the days of longitudinal videotape recording.

jPo, CSI