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Participant
May 3, 2017
Question

Weird timecode format when exporting subclips

  • May 3, 2017
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Hello,

I am having a weird problem when transcoding subclips from Prelude. When I ingest the footage back in Premiere, the timecode of the footage is all messed up and displays a 3 or 4 digit number (ex: 3311 or 477.. etc) instead of the actual duration in a timecode format (00:00:00:00). The original clips are displaying fine in Prelude before transcoding. I don't know what the issue may be since I haven't seen this before. Is it maybe an export preference, or is it a bug?

I also tried to export a clip straight from Media Encoder using the same settings and when imported back in Premiere, the timecode is as expected, looking at the bottom clip in the image (GOPR0631). Also when importing the transcoded clip from Prelude two other subclip files come with it, which obviously I don't want, since I already pre-selected in Prelude and I just want all the subclips I defined treated as individual new files. 

Any input is highly appreciated!

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Legend
May 3, 2017

My guess is that this footage is supposed to be slowed down to 50%.  Have you tried Modifying the fps to 23.976 before export?

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2017

This might be due to the odd framerate.

Participant
May 3, 2017

It kinda confirms it, as I tried to export other clips in 23.976 from Prelude and it shows up fine. The framerate is 48fps and it's the majority of the footage. I have had only issues so far dealing with 1920x1440 / 48fps footage. Quicktime DNxHR didn't work at all with 48fps. I have used Cineform instead, which seems to work, but I do get this timecode issue. Any ideas or workarounds I might try? maybe a different codec?

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2017

I have no idea how to fix this or any workaround.

The original footage is gorpro?