Video frames are numbered in the format hours:minutes:seconde:frames (01:00:23:04) There are several frame rates possible. Broadcast in the Americas uses a rate of about 29.97 frames per second (FPS), ...

Hidden pick lists provide frame rate selection and part type selection values. Hidden columns provide time in, time out and duration calculated as both frame count (drop and non-drop) and microsecond ...

In today’s media industry, concepts like ‘video timing’ and ‘synchronization’ are rarely discussed outside circles deeply involved in the technical side of broadcasting. A term like ‘drop frame’ is ...

For media editors, it’s important to understand the difference between drop frame and non-drop frame timecodes, their respective benefits, how each method works, and when they should be utilized. To ...

Colour video was slowly introduced into broadcast. It was therefore necessary to make it compatible with black and white receivers and to design colour receivers or televisions to be able to receive ...

Using multiple cameras on a shoot or having a sound recordest synching them all together with the same timecode will make life in the edit bay so much easier. Timecode is the key to this, and without ...

"As a director in post-production on my first feature, I was getting tired of scribbling notes in the dark that I couldn't decipher afterwards," explained filmmaker Stefan Kubicki. "So my editor ...