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change the starting timecode
20 Dec 2011 05:20 #2668
by mori
change the starting timecode was created by mori
Hi,
I don't understand why and when I need to change the starting timecode? what is the reason for this?
can someone explain to me?
thx
I don't understand why and when I need to change the starting timecode? what is the reason for this?
can someone explain to me?
thx
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20 Dec 2011 10:08 #2670
by BenB
Replied by BenB on topic Re: change the starting timecode
It's arbitrary. Make it whatever the heck you want it to be.
Way back in the days of cutting negatives and pasting them together as the only form of editing, editors manually wrote "Edit Decision Lists", which has the Film timecode, reel number, In/Out timecode for cuts, etc, so that the negative cutter could put it all together.
Back then, they started films at 01:00:00:00, and not at absolute zero. In starting the edits at one hour, they could then add stuff to the beginning without having to erase and recompile whole EDL's, which would have taken days to complete.
Today we work digitally on computers, so you can make Timecode whatever the heck you want, it doesn't matter.
Way back in the days of cutting negatives and pasting them together as the only form of editing, editors manually wrote "Edit Decision Lists", which has the Film timecode, reel number, In/Out timecode for cuts, etc, so that the negative cutter could put it all together.
Back then, they started films at 01:00:00:00, and not at absolute zero. In starting the edits at one hour, they could then add stuff to the beginning without having to erase and recompile whole EDL's, which would have taken days to complete.
Today we work digitally on computers, so you can make Timecode whatever the heck you want, it doesn't matter.
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