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Post-production · term

Source timecode

The timecode recorded with or assigned to original media and used to identify source frames.

In practice

Preserve rate, drop-frame flag, reel or file identity, and offsets from ingest through conform.

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Sources

  1. Avid Glossary · Avid Technology

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