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Timecode, metadata & file integrity · Working

Non-drop-frame timecode

Also called: NDF

ELI5

A timecode numbering method that counts every frame number without clock-time correction.

Used in conversation

“The delivery specification asks for non-drop-frame timecode, so post needs to plan for it now.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Non-drop-frame timecode” in editing, colour, post & delivery conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how recorded material becomes a finished, approved and technically deliverable work.

Connected terms

  • Drop-frame timecodeDrop-frame timecode skips timecode numbers to track clock time at certain fractional frame rates; non-drop counts every number and drifts from clock time.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.