Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> Well, the frames are dropped in the NAMING of the frames, as you know,
> and not in the actual frames themselves. My analogy is that drop frame
> time code is like a skyscraper hotel where there's never a 13th floor.
> Of course floor 14 is ACTUALLY the 13th floor, but they named it 14.
> That obviously doesn't mean that there's a one floor hole in the
> skyscraper, or that just because you have a penthouse on the 21st
> floor, you're not REALLY only on the 20th floor.

And to go with Steve's excellent explanation, an illustration:

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/10/20/what-is-drop-frame-timecode/

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