Choosing the appropriate timecode settings

Understanding time code has been made quite complicated over the years.…Many people confuse time code with other aspects of synchronization.…Simply put, time code is a series of addresses, just like your street address…and your neighbor's.…Time code in and of itself has nothing to do with speed.…Time code is a positional reference.…It tells you where you are, it tells other machines where you are, and it can be…read from other machines to know where they are at any moment in time.…

There are several different time code formats to choose from.…Basically they are all different ways of dividing time into hours, minutes,…seconds, frames, and subframes, which are a one one-hundredth of a frame.…SMPTE time code is counted in 30 frames per second.…This is used for audio only applications.…SMPTE time code can also be counted in 29.97 frames per second.…This is used in U.S. standard video applications.…The explanation is long, boring, and stupid, but the short explanation is that…when color television was invented, the frame rate was slowed down, and we have…