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Is 30fps Video on the Sony A7RIII 29.97 DF or NDF?

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rdbot Regular Member • Posts: 248
Is 30fps Video on the Sony A7RIII 29.97 DF or NDF?

Can't seem to find an answer to this. I have a Tentacle Track E audio recorder that I need to match the frame rate to my camera. I found that 30fps is really 29.97fps but not whether it's drop frame or not drop frame and this is a setting I have to choose on the audio recorder. It offers me both options. Any ideas?

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mkfed
mkfed Regular Member • Posts: 224
Re: Is 30fps Video on the Sony A7RIII 29.97 DF or NDF?
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Normally 29.97fps is by definition DF since timecode can only represent full seconds? But you can verify yourself, record one hour with both. If they are in sync at the 1:00:00.00 mark it's okay if they're 3.6 secs off change the DF setting?

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OP rdbot Regular Member • Posts: 248
Re: Is 30fps Video on the Sony A7RIII 29.97 DF or NDF?
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I found a way in the camera settings to choose drop or non-drop frames.

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