Timecode A User's Guide, 3rd Edition

Preface to the first edition

Probably every person involved in the making of television programmes will come across 'timecode' at some stage in the production process. It can be a powerful tool in post-production, yet is often poorly understood. As a result, it can cause embarrassing and expensive problems when it fails. Most timecode failure can be avoided if its characteristics, and those of the various recording machines that process it, are properly understood. On location it can make various production processes much easier and less time-consuming, yet few people are aware of its full potential.

Recording formats have evolved rapidly in recent years, with location professional R-DAT and digital VCRs already with us. Timecode implementation ...