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Originally Posted by philper  Thanks KK, I was hoping you'd see my post. I don't know about locating to TC, or how that even works on DVD-video. But the player will take ext. sync (Pioneer V7400). What I want is for the playback running time to be the same as the OMF export within a frame over 60 min., which is about as accurate as my DV camcorder playing back w/o ext.sync has been, and way more accurate than DVD playing in either a consumer player or off my laptop, in my experience.
Philip Perkins |
Yes, there are reasons why a DVD would be inaccurate, depending on how it is authored. You usually leave a couple of seconds of black so anything AC3 can be recognized by the decoder. Also, again, MPEG2 is lossy, so a frame from your camera with someone moving may very well look different if you stop frame the DVD.
There's also the amusing thing that video TC considers the whole frame (like a whole 30th of second), while in audio, we think of TC stopping at the top of the frame. That's how you can get 1 frame errors when sending audio to a video editor.