Bug in Edit Details?

ik wrote on 3/3/2003, 3:28 PM
It seems manually changing "Take Start" value in "Edit Details" doesn't work as expected. In "SMPTE EBU" or "Time & Frames" modes (PAL footage) the value entered sometimes jumps more or less randomly (for example from 00:00:11:53 entered to 00:00:13:03). In "Time" or "Seconds" modes no problems so far. Is there any reason for that or is it a bug?

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Former user wrote on 3/3/2003, 3:32 PM
That is because there is no such thing as 53 frames in timecode. It is base 30 or 25 (pal) so it is rounding to the correct time.
11 seconds and 53 frames equals 13 seconds and 3 frames in PAL.

Dave T2

ik wrote on 3/3/2003, 3:59 PM
Oh thanks,

I even have thought of rounding to 25 fps, but haven't done the whole math... However, I think I recall at least one case of "flooring", the latter value was smaller than former. But I can't reproduce it right now.

While we're here, do you know some decent method of exact reversing already trimmed event? After trimming a pan/zoom, sometimes I want to reverse it, you know it's easier to zoom out from object while filming.
Till now, I see four methods of doing that:

1. The obvious: reverse, than trim again - somewhat stupid/slow.

2. Render to new track/file. Easy to reverse, but hard to adjust later, yet another file - not very elegant.

3. Go to trimmer, set marks in the media file, reverse, snap edges to marks - works good for the end mark, but not as good for the start mark due to the nature of envelopes.

4. The best I see for now: note values in Edit Details, calculate new Take Start time (current Start Time + Length), reverse, set right values in Edit Details.

Is there anything I've missed? Something obvious?