Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
If the source video is @60, set the time code generator to non-drop frame. If the video is @59.94 set the time code generator to drop frameCliff Benham wrote:Bert, it's not *video frames* being dropped at all, it's time code frames that are being dropped so timecode more or less keeps sync with the video on the tape or the film..John Shutt described this in great detail. I may still be missing the bigger problem here, so tell me this: Let's say that the time codes for the video or film frames could be madeto fit exactly in 30 minute and 60 minute time slots.
No, I don't think so. I have *never* seen this occur in watching the NTSC video output of about ten different OTA, cable and satellite HD boxes through 6 mHz analog vestigial sideband [cable TV] modulators over the last 10 years or more.stream of ATSC video and audio has to be decoded and converted into standard NTSC for legacy receivers. Would we not encounter the same problems with the color burst signal beating against the audio carrier, which originally motivated this whole mess?
I guess, unless the ATSC to NTSC conversion were much more elaborate, incorporating an odd frame rate conversion function?
Being analog, NTSC TV has some 'slop' in the physical embodiment of the technical specifications it aspires to.
How else would it be possible to play VHS tapes on a $30 VCR from Woolco that uses 'rubber bands' to spin the head drum and the capstan and still get a pretty good color picture from it?
Time code has nothing to do with the video signal being broadcast. It does not leave the broadcast plant with the transmitted signal except by mistake.I'm just trying to determine what the issues are, to answer the question why ATSC had to retain those rates. One might think that as soon as OTA and cable NTSC go away, the odd rates could also be dropped (because no broadcaster would be converting any analog source material into digital). But I think that in fact, they can't be dropped until everyone stops using the NTSC RF as a convenient interface between DBS, cable, or OTA STBs and legacy receivers, right? Bert
Timecode is used only for editing video in a production suite or for timing segments of video being played back in an automated system.
Hope I've understood what you are asking.... Cliff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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