If you want to reset your timecode entries, hit the button called RESET. You can copy the result to your clipboard by clicking on the button named COPY. The results consist of three elements: the result timecode, the used frame rate, and the frame count of the timecode result. If your timecode calculation succeeds, TC Calc will show you a result in the result section. In that case, TC Calc will highlight the corresponding element of the concerning timecode and inform you what went wrong by showing you an info text in the result section, describing the problem.
You can copy and paste the timecode into the timecode fields as well.įurthermore, suppose you typed in values that are not allowed in the timecode. As you will notice, TC Calc is very reactive and immediately shows results while you type in the timecodes. As the third step, you fill in the two timecodes. If you have selected the subtract method, TC Calc subtracts the timecode above from the timecode below. Second, you can choose to add two timecodes or subtract one timecode from the other (defaults to addition). First, you choose the desired FPS your calculations should take place (defaults to 24 FPS). The usage of TC Calc is quite simple and follows easy steps. They rather skip the first two frame counts in the timecode on the first second in each minute, but not if the minute count is divisible by ten. All other FPS choices use non-drop-frame timecodes (NDF).īut what are DF timecodes? Easy, drop-frame timecodes don't skip actual frames as the name might suggest. The DF-suffix on 29.97 and 59.94 mean drop-frame and indicate that those two timecodes use the drop-frame method for showing timecodes. (A future version may allow the user to select a specific 'non. It has a default value of 1 Hour as the starting time of your program material but the other 23 even hours can be selected if necessary. The accepted FPS are 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97 DF, 30, 48, 50, 59.94 DF and 60. Timecode Tool will easily allow you to enter the PAL timecode of 2:14:30:23 and will return to you the equivalent 23.98, DF, and NDF timecodes. TC Calc works with timecodes of different frame rates per second (FPS).
The timecodes it processes are SMPTE-conform timecodes used in the motion picture industry. But one bad experience by the client some years ago can influence them forever.TC Calc is a timecode calculator which enables you to add or subtract two different timecodes. I'm doing a 29.97 job right now and could not talk the client out of it their reasoning was, "23.976 might lead to problems when it's converted to 1080i," which was frustrating because I know that's done every single day, and it works fine. I would say 23.976fps makes much more sense, but we can only make tactful suggestions in post, and ultimately it's the client's decision.
And there were numerous 20-minute takes in the film, too, yet they all stayed perfectly in sync (as you would expect). The first day or so of post was problematic, but after that it was as smooth as glass - everything got pulled down. In my 13 nutty years of working with HD, I can only recall one show using 24.00fps, and that was the Adam Sandler film Grownups, shot on Panavision Genesis. The key phrase to use is, "are you sure you mean 24.00fps" (as in twenty-four-point-zero-zero), or do they mean 23.976 or 23.98? Usually, the only solution is to read the camera manual. If they say, "No, it's really 24" be sure to check with the producer and editor (if one exists when you start) and get it in writingĮxactly.