i was looking for something along these lines a few years ago. here's a discussion which, i think, represents the current state-of-the-art (it's not much!): http://old.nabble.com/Utility-to-read-SMPTE-LTC-"audio"-time-code… ltcsmpte is here: http://ltcsmpte.sourceforge.net/ if you look at the svn repository, you'll see jltc, which is an example jack app to read LTC and display SMPTE (and, i think, control JACK transport). i haven't recently needed any such thing, so i'm not sure what the current usability of this tool is. it's likely that there's "some assembly required"! i don't know of anything else under linux for this sort of thing. cheers! -- .pltk.

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Robin Gareus wrote: Well, this all may be moot, because the videographers themselves haven't gotten back to me. I was just trying to learn how I could best interoperate with them. I won't be doing any of the video editing myself, and ultimately, I'll just give them a stereo track, and I was hoping I could also carry along a timecode track to ease their job of sync'ing it up. This is a university-level Student/professor group doing the shooting, and I don't know if they're even going to the trouble of sync'ing their cameras' clocks, much less prepared to provide me with any form of clock sync. I'm just trying to get myself up to speed so that I know how to deal with whatever they throw at me. I've been told by a local friend that it's not worth the trouble. Video is approx 30 FPS, and audio is 48k S/s, so alignment 'by ear' is 'good enough'. That may be what they're planning to do anyway... Reading the Ardour manual, and poking thru the menus, I found an option to send MTC, but not one to receive MTC. I don't want to be responsible for providing a clock to the video recorder(s). Ardour's timeline always starts at 0:00, and I haven't found any option to use wall time instead. If they were to try using MMC to sync the audio during post, it would depend on both the DAW and the video editor using the same clock. -- Rick Green "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 18:24 +0100, Florian Faber wrote: The way I have done this in the past is to make a DVD with all the music in the correct places, and also to provide the music as wav files. Then they can see where you intend the music to be, and how it works with the picture. It's very unlikely that they will leave the audio in the exact place you decided to put it anyway, as you are not making the final cut. So in practice the important part is that your vision is communicated in an understandable way.

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Paul Davis wrote: I think they work together? MTC is the timeline, which I'd have to lay down while recording, and MMC is the transport command stream, which would be used during post, including 'Locate to [MTC value]' commands. Am I understanding that much correctly? -- Rick Green "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Paul Davis wrote: After I sent my request, I continued to search, and eventually found the old Ardour manual, which has a chapter on MTC. I'll see if the videographers have the capability of feeding me a MIDI stream with MTC. That will be much more useful in post, since Ardour will follow MMC. -- Rick Green "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009