It happened during the transition from black and white to color, and the desire to make NTSC backwards compatible with B&W television. They mushed the color into the luma signal by adding it to a subcarrier in main signal, but it caused some interference. By slowing it down by 0.1%, they got rid of the interference while maintaining compatibility with older sets designed for 30.0 fps (well, really 60.0 fields per second) signals.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Theron</div><div>^</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM, d p fenn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:weasel@meer.net">weasel@meer.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Le Dec 29, 2011 à 2:12 PM, lilia a écrit :<br>
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>> b) build a "drop frame" algorithm into your scanner. If I remember the math,<br>
>> 29.97fps means you drop 1 frame from every 100 frames of footage. So, you'd<br>
>> want to have your scanner randomly skip a frame at that frequency.<br>
>> Timecoding would be easy since you'd just number each frame in the sequence<br>
>> you captured it.<br>
><br>
> almost! it's 1 per 1000. just remember 999/1000 * 30 fps = 29.97 fps.<br>
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</div>small nit, ntsc is 30000/1001. someone once told me the origins but i'm sure someone else here will supply the details :-)<br>
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