Excalibur 2 clip duration

Randy Brown wrote on 1/13/2004, 3:10 PM

Hey y'all,
Can you duplicate this...select clip, run clip duration at 1.5 seconds and get a 2.2 second clip or 1.6 = 3 seconds?
Thanks,
Randy

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GaryKleiner wrote on 1/13/2004, 4:06 PM

Randy,

I am having a hard time decrypting your sentance. Perhaps you can restate it.

I just ran Duration Wizard set to 1 sec 15frames. After running it, the selected event was changed to 1 se 15 frames.

Gary

epirb wrote on 1/13/2004, 5:45 PM

yeah, ditto

Randy Brown wrote on 1/14/2004, 7:14 AM

Well then apparently I'm confused because I thought the two last digits after the decimal point were hundredths of seconds (ie enter 1.50 and you make the clip 1 and a half seconds, 1.75 equals 1 and three quarters...is this not correct?
Sorry,
Randy

GaryKleiner wrote on 1/14/2004, 7:28 AM

No, it's timecode, so it is hours:minutes:seconds:frames

Gary

Randy Brown wrote on 1/14/2004, 7:43 AM

I find that I often have to change generated media clips used, to an exact amount (for credits etc.) and more times than not they need to inlude fractions of seconds. I've been laboriously doing this by hand but had hoped the new Excalibur would expedite my task. If you get enough requests would you consider writing this option in? Or is there another way of going about this that I'm just too ignorant to grasp?
Thanks Gary,
Randy

dcrandall wrote on 1/14/2004, 8:20 AM

Randy,You should be able to do what you want with no change to Excaliber.
Timecode is: hours:minutes:seconds:frames. Assuming you are in 30fps NTSC land, "frames" will be 1/30 of a second each. That should be enough precision for you.

-Dan

Randy Brown wrote on 1/14/2004, 8:39 AM

errrrr...you're right Dan...thanks for everyones patience.
Randy