Timecode & Frame Rates

SequenceSuite handles SMPTE 12M timecode at every standard editorial frame rate, including drop-frame variants.

EDL frame rate options

EDLs don’t embed frame-rate metadata, so SequenceSuite prompts you to set the rate per file at import. The picker offers:

Rate	Drop-frame variant
23.976 fps	-
24 fps	-
25 fps	-
29.97 fps	DF and NDF
30 fps	-
50 fps	-
59.94 fps	DF and NDF
60 fps	-

The default rate used to seed the picker is configurable in Settings → General. The FCM: header in the EDL is read on import - when it’s present, the drop-frame flag is auto-detected and pre-selected.

XML-based formats (Premiere, Resolve, FCPXML) carry their own frame-rate metadata and don’t need this picker.

Drop-frame notation

Drop-frame timecode uses a semicolon separator: 01;00;00;00. Non-drop-frame uses colons: 01:00:00:00. SequenceSuite preserves the notation from the source sequence.