Converting time formats

[Jon.G]

In the process of authoring discs, I am looking for quick and easy methods of dealing with chapters. I often have an audio file that has markers where I will want my chapters to be, and it is long and tedious to copy and paste them manually. Also, I've found that, it seems no matter what, dvd lap pro 2 wants time in the form of non-drop. Otherwise, my chapters end up being later than I want them to, which happens gradually over the time of the album, and ends up being about a 4 second difference by the end. Which, is ridiculous to me, that people in the world of video have decided that something such as a scientific unit of measurement like the second can be redefined to meet their needs, who cares how that throws everything else off. I have found a handy dandy tool called cuelisttool that allows me to easily extract the timing of the markers on my wave files. However, I can't seem to find a way to get the timing in non-drop. Is there a way to extract markers from wave files in non-drop time, or a tool that will easily convert a listing of times from a more normal method of time to non-drop?

[Jon.G]

No one? Seriously? No one has come up with a way to convert real time to non-drop? How in the heck do you get anything done if none of you out there can go from one to the other?

[Cornucopia]

There are plenty of timecode calculators on the net that'll do the conversion for you, just none I know of that do batch. Should be straightforward to build a script, though. The differences are well explained. Sorry, not going to do your legwork. Too busy ATM.

Scott

[_Al_]

That selection "chapters/ set drop frame ..." for chapters in DVDLabPro does not work?

[Jon.G]

It''s been a while since I've tried that, but I recall that not working. However, lately I've been making audio only dvds by adding a audio title instead of a movie to my project, and that seems to be rather limiting to the chapter options and gives me no way to specify the type of timing I'm adding.

[Jon.G]

Really? Nothing?

Come on, people, this is basic! Offer some damn help on this forum.

No one can even come up with a formula? Or a single tool that converts one to the other? Really?

How in the heck are all of you dealing with this timing bullshit?

[hech54]

I remember years ago I made a huge dual layer audio-only DVD using only Tmpgenc plus with a black .bmp image(and CD audio) and TDA(for authoring).....albums as titles and songs from the albums as chapters in each title. I figured out a workflow that made the job not-so-tedious.....couldn't get around the manual song naming aspect though....that sort of sucked.
Anyway, I was about to offer some advice until I saw your attitude and decided not to bother.

Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Gofa

Gofa Kyerself
Head of marketing at yourattitudesucks.net

[Jon.G]

Every time I post to this forum, I get no help, or told to do something different that won't work for what I'm trying to do. Thanks again for nothing and wasting my time yet again, and clogging up the internet with yet another forum thread that asks a valid question without any useful information, for future google searches to waste peoples time with.

[smrpix]

For Pete's sake, subtract two frames per minute except on the 10s.

[Jon.G]

How do you calculate that on the fly?

[smrpix]

Do it in your head. Subtract 4 seconds from each hour (2x60), then add back 12 frames. (60/10x2.)