Time Should Start at 00:00:00.00

sj1

Posted Sun, 2025-12-28 - 21:09

Hi,

The time counter is starting at 1 hour instead of 0 hours.

HiEnergy

Mon, 2025-12-29 - 07:21 Permalink

There's some historic reason for that...

https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/xdsyo5/why_does_smpte_timecode_start_at_1hour/

housekeeper

Mon, 2025-12-29 - 12:04 Permalink

SMPTE is for synchronizing with film. It's not the elapsed song time

sj1

Mon, 2025-12-29 - 12:43 Permalink

Good info, thanks!

housekeeper

Mon, 2025-12-29 - 12:44 Permalink

It's important that a synchronized DAW uses the same offset

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