Specifications

Video Satellite Guide46
Matching Timecode Format
(Drop Frame or Non-Drop Frame)
Pro Tools and Media Composer must be set to
the same timecode format (either Drop Frame or
Non-Drop Frame).
To ensure timecode format settings are
compatible:
1 In Pro Tools, choose Setup > Session. If the
Timecode rate pop-up menu displays “DF” after
the frame rate, Pro Tools is set to Drop Frame.
2 In Media Composer, right-click the Record
monitor, and choose
Sequence Report.
If the numbers in the TC fields are separated by
semi-colons instead of colons, the project is set
to Drop Frame.
3 If both timecode formats do not match, do one
of the following:
• To force Pro Tools to match the timecode
format of Media Composer, select the com-
patible timecode format from the Timecode
Rate pop-up menu.
– or –
• To force Media Composer to match the
timecode rate of Pro Tools, type semi-co-
lons (Drop Frame) or colons (Non-Drop
Frame) between the numbers in the Start-
ing TC field, and press Enter.
Right-clicking the Record monitor
In some project formats, Media Composer
can be configured for Drop Frame or Non-
Drop Frame, while the corresponding
Pro Tools timecode rate can only be set to
Non-Drop Frame. In such cases,
Media Composer sends Non-Drop timecode
information to Pro Tools, even if it is set to
Drop Frame. The following project formats
in Media Composer exhibit this behavior:
23.976p NTSC, 24p NTSC, and 720p/23.976.
Clip Info dialog (Media Composer, top) and a portion
of the Session Setup window (Pro Tools, bottom)
Starting
TC field
Session
Start field
Timecode
Rate