Time code (TC) is very important in editing because editing is about time, crafting time.

Used to get the clip, when to start to clip and when to end the clip and mix them together.

A time code marks each frame of a video recording with a specific numeric address, which represents
elapsed recording time, hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. But, true to all things in television
production, even time code gate a bit more complicated. One of the most widely used time Codes,
called SMPTE/EBU time code (for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers/ European
Broadcasting Union), lets you select from two modes non-drop frame and drop frame.

Window Dub- used when you ingest your material.

Synchronized time code- o mark exactly the first frame of the first take for all cameras, you nod to have
all camera record simultaneously the same sync mark, regardless of whether the cameras started
recording at exactly the same time, there are several ways of getting such a simultaneous sync mark.
One way is have all cameras focus on a playboard, somebody clapping together their outstretched arms,
Dr a still camera triggering a flash, The First frame that shows the clapboard or hands closed or the white
flash will serve as the synchronization point for the window dub time code even if the cameras were not
all started at the exact same moment. Because the flash lightens up only a single frame, it is by far the
most accurate of the sync methods mentioned, such a window dub Is essential for matching video and
sound in postproduction.

There are portable time code generators that deliver time code simultaneously to multiple camcorders
in the field, provided that all have receivers and are not poo fer from the time code transmitter.

Logging – is important to know the take, the good take and bad take.