Can you just use the addTimeCode node to override it?
-deke
On Monday, October 21, 2013, J Bills wrote:
> Hi all - just looking for a clean way to pipe timecode through to my slate.
>
> the dpx timecode starts on frame 1, so when doing a slate on frame 0 the
> post house is expecting the timecode to decrease by 1 but at the moment
> it's just passing through the same code from frame 1. they aren't liking
> that too much.
>
> looking at the metadata, it appears that dpx/time_code is the frame number
> version of the timecode -- as in 86400
>
> and then input/timecode is the time display. as in 01:00:00:00
>
> I can get the dpx/time_code to drop by one easily in modifyMetaData -
> [python \{nuke.thisNode().metadata()\['dpx/time_code']-1\}]
>
> but the input/timecode is harder because it's a string.
>
> we're going down the path of splitting that string out and decreasing the
> frames display by 1 and accounting for the rollover from 23 to 00.
>
> I guess ideally I'd just convert the dpx/time_code frames display that
> I've already decreased back into timecode - anyone know the formula for
> that or have a cleaner way to do this?
>
> much thanks
> -J
>
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