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-layout: default
-title: Overview of all Timecode related settings
-menu_title: Overview of Timecode settings
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-
-<p>
- Timecode settings are accessed from the menu in three places:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><kbd class="menu">Session > Properties > Timecode</kbd></li>
- <li><kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Transport</kbd></li>
- <li><kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > MIDI</kbd></li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Timecode Settings</h2>
-<dl>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Timecode frames-per-second</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Configure timecode frames-per-second (23.976, 24, 24.975, 25, 29.97,
- 29.97 drop, 30, 30 drop, 59.94, 60). Note that all fractional
- framerates are actually fps*(1000.0/1001.0).
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Pull up/down</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Video pull-up modes change the effective samplerate of Ardour to
- allow for changing a film soundtrack from one frame rate to another.
- See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine">Telecine</a>
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Slave Timecode offset</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- The specified offset is added to the received timecode (MTC or
- LTC).
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Timecode Generator offset</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Specify an offset which is added to the generated timecode (so far only LTC).
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">JACK Time Master</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Provide Bar|Beat|Tick and other information to JACK.
- </dd>
-</dl>
-<p>These settings are session specific.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Transport Preferences</h2>
-<dl>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">External timecode source</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Select timecode source: JACK, LTC, MTC, MIDI Clock
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Match session video frame rate to external timecode</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- This option controls the value of the video frame rate <em>while
- chasing</em> an external timecode source. When enabled, the
- session video frame rate will be changed to match that of the selected
- external timecode source. When disabled, the session video frame rate
- will not be changed to match that of the selected external timecode
- source. Instead the frame rate indication in the main clock will flash
- red and Ardour will convert between the external timecode standard and
- the session standard.
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">External timecode is sync locked</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Indicates that the selected external timecode source shares sync (Black
- & Burst, Wordclock, etc) with the audio interface.
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Lock to 29.9700 fps instead of 30000/1001</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- The external timecode source is assumed to use 29.97 fps instead of
- 30000/1001. SMPTE 12M-1999 specifies 29.97df as 30000/1001. The spec
- further mentions that drop-frame timecode has an accumulated error of -86ms
- over a 24-hour period. Drop-frame timecode would compensate exactly for a
- NTSC color frame rate of 30 * 0.9990 (ie 29.970000). That is not the actual
- rate. However, some vendors use that rate — despite it being against
- the specs — because the variant of using exactly 29.97 fps has zero
- timecode drift.
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">LTC incoming port</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Offers a session agnostic way to retain the LTC port connection.
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Enable LTC generator</kbd></dt>
- <dd>Does just what it says.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Send LTC while stopped</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Enable to continue to send LTC information even when the transport
- (playhead) is not moving. This mode is intended to drive analog tape
- machines which unspool the tape if no LTC timecode is received.
- </dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">LTC generator level</kbd></dt>
- <dd>
- Specify the Peak Volume of the generated LTC signal in dbFS. A good value
- is 0 dBu (which is -18 dbFS in an EBU calibrated system).
- </dd>
-</dl>
-<p>These settings are common to all sessions.</p>
-
-
-<h2>MIDI Preferences</h2>
-<dl>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Send MIDI Timecode</kbd></dt><dd>Enable MTC generator</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="option">Send MIDI Clock</kbd></dt><dd>Enable MIDI Clock generator</dd>
-</dl>
-<p>These settings are also common to all sessions.</p>
-