Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> Good visual explanation there Philip. Only one slight modification
> which can be easily explained with math.
>
> I am terrible at math, so this won't be too hard.
>
> So, if you have 30 frames per second for 60 seconds, you get 1800
> frames.
> If you have 29.97 frames per second for 60 seconds, you get 1798.2
> frames, which is NOT QUITE 2 "dropped" frames per minute.
> To make up for this, SMPTE DOESN'T drop the two frames from every 10th
> minute. That's because of the .2 extra frames per minute, which, over
> the course of 10 minutes becomes (.2 x 10= 2) the two frames that you
> WOULD have dropped, but now you don't.
>
> So your illustration should read, "2 dropped frames per minute with
> the exception of every tenth minute, where no frames are dropped."

Agreed, although I made the deliberate decision to limit the
complexity and left that out.

Maybe I should reconsider the decision :)

Philip

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