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Old 08-14-2017, 11:48 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Klangfarben View Post
The second thing is more of a question. When exporting a SMPTE offset of a MIDI file, by definition it is going to be timecode, so having the option to export wall time is confusing to me. I can't think of a single instance when choosing to export a SMPTE timecode offset you would want wall time instead. I think it would be less clutter and less confusing if SMPTE export only exported timecode and not wall time which is a bit meaningless and will never be used, especially as it is not part of the spec. Thoughts?
The SMPTE MIDI spec does not define non-drop timecodes, the only choices are 24,25,30, and 30DF. So providing the option to encode as wall clock vs timecode time seems to be sensible, depending on how the importing software is configured?
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