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It's to leave room before first picture, for slates, countdowns, test signals etc, while still preserving an easy count of running time for the video. Yes, it traces historically to broadcast and in particular videotape.
Many tape-based editing systems couldn't deal with 24-hour wraparound, so the next even hour became traditional 'time zero'. I suspect ...
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What you are looking for is a feature often called "render stems". For each track it contains a single WAV file rendered from the start of that track. Yes this is very wasteful of disk space, but you can at least easily import the files into any other DAW and they will line up correctly. It is up to you whether you need to export with effects on or not.
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Turn off warping for those clips that you recorded into, now they'll play at their original rate regardless of the project's tempo. You can now tap the tempo in to figure out what it is, and then go into those clips and set that as their base tempo. At this point, you can re-enable warping and the tracks should be playing at the same rate as before, since ...
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More and more cameras are including GPS time sync now that they almost all use them for location information. I am sure you can find a camera at any price range that includes this capability. The GPS should keep your cameras within a few hundred milliseconds of each other.
Take them for a run at Best Buy or a similar store, letting them run for a while to ...
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Click on the clip in your Arrangement View, and at the bottom right you'll see the name of the clip in a small box. To the left of that box is a tiny picture of the clip's waveform, in a box the same height (this is the Clip Overview). Click on the clip overview, and options for the clip will be in the area just above it. Under the Sample options there is ...
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With higher PPQ resolutions events can be more accurate (but it's not necessarly the case). For example at 24 ppq you can only have 24 different positions between two blacks. This has an impact when you interpret the MIDI events to fill a structure. Let's say that your MIDI application has a MIDI clock with a 96 PPQ resolution and you want to open a MIDI ...
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FFmpeg can do this. Example from the FFmpeg Filtering Guide:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/DroidSans.ttf: timecode='09\:57\:00\:00': r=25: x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000000@1" -an -y out.mp4
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The reason you cant get the durations is because a marker is just reference to a point in time, not a time range. This time around you will need to find the durations manually either by opening the clip or subtracting the time of the previous marker form the current one.
You can give markers durations, but not as effortlessly as just placing a single ...
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If you have Compressor installed (comes with the Final Cut 7 Studio) you can burn-in a timecode to a video. You need to setup a preset at the beginning, but then you can make a droplet for further use.
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