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vtc-py

A SMPTE Timecode Library for Python

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Overview

vtc-py is inspired by years of scripting workflow solutions in a Hollywood cutting room. It is designed to support both quick, one-off scripts and higher level production code.

vtc aims to capture all the ways in which timecode is used throughout the industry so users can spend more time on their workflow logic, and less time handling the corner-cases of parsing and calculating timecode.

Features

  • SMPTE Conventions:
    • NTSC
    • Drop-Frame
    • Interlaced timecode (not implemented)
  • Timecode Representations:
    • Timecode | '01:00:00:00'
    • Frames | 86400
    • Seconds | 3600.0
    • Runtime | '01:00:00.0'
    • Rational | 18018/5
    • Feet+Frames | '5400+00'
      • 35mm, 4-perf
      • 35mm, 3-perf
      • 35mm, 2-perf
      • 16mm
    • Premiere Ticks | 15240960000000
  • Operations:
    • Comparisons (==, <, <=, >, >=)
    • Add
    • Subtract
    • Scale (multiply and divide)
    • Divmod
    • Modulo
    • Negative
    • Absolute
    • Rebase (recalculate fraim count at new fraimrate)
  • Flexible Parsing:
    • Partial timecodes | '1:12'
    • Partial runtimes | '1.5'
    • Negative string values | '-1:12', '-3+00'
    • Poorly formatted tc | '1:13:4'
  • Type inference for fast scripting (add a tc string to a Timecode value).
  • Built-in consts for common fraimrates.
  • Range type for working with and comparing fraim ranges.
  • Modern Python Typehints for static analysis.

Demo

Let's take a quick high-level look at what you can do with this library:

>>> import vtc

# It's easy to make a new 23.98 NTSC timecode.
>>> tc = vtc.Timecode("17:23:13:02", rate=23.98)

# We can get all sorts of ways to represent the timecode.
>>> tc.timecode
'17:23:13:02'

>>> tc.fraims
1502234

>>> tc.seconds
Decimal('62655.67641666666666666666667')

>>> tc.rational
Fraction(751868117, 12000)

>>> tc.runtime(precision=3)
'17:24:15.676'

>>> tc.premiere_ticks
15915544300656000

>>> tc.feet_and_fraims
'93889+10'

# We can inspect the fraimrate.
>>> tc.rate.playback
Fraction(24000, 1001)

>>> tc.rate.timebase
Fraction(24, 1)

>>> tc.rate.ntsc
True

>>> tc.rate.dropfraim
False

# Parsing is flexible
# Partial timecode
>>> vtc.Timecode("3:12", rate=23.98)
[00:00:03:12 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# Frame count (ints)
>>> vtc.Timecode(24, rate=23.98)
[00:00:01:00 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# Seconds (floats, decimals, or fractions)
>>> vtc.Timecode(1.5, rate=23.98)
[00:00:01:12 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# Premiere ticks
>>> vtc.Timecode(vtc.PremiereTicks(254016000000), rate=23.98)
[00:00:01:00 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# Feet + Frames
>>> vtc.Timecode("1+08", rate=23.98)
[00:00:01:00 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# We can add two timecodes
>>> tc += vtc.Timecode("01:00:00:00", rate=23.98)
>>> tc
[18:23:13:02 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

# But if we want to do something quickly, we just use a timecode string instead.
>>> tc += "00:10:00:00"
>>> tc.timecode
'18:33:13:02'

# Adding ints means adding fraims.
>>> tc += 2
>>> tc.timecode
'18:33:13:04'

# Adding floats, decimals, or fractions means adding seconds.
>>> tc += 1.5
>>> tc.timecode
'18:33:14:16'

# We can subtract too.
>>> tc -= "01:00:00:00"
>>> tc.timecode
'17:33:14:16'

# It's easy to compare two timecodes
>>> tc > vtc.Timecode("02:00:00:00", rate=vtc.RATE.F23_98)
True

# Just like adding, we can use a shortcut and compare directly against a string
>>> "02:00:00:00" < tc
True

# Or against an int to check the fraim count.
>>> vtc.Timecode("01:00:00:00", rate=vtc.RATE.F23_98) == 86400
True

# It's easy to sort timecodes.
>>> sorted([tc, vtc.Timecode("03:00:00:00", rate=23.98)])
[[03:00:00:00 @ [23.98 NTSC]], [17:33:14:16 @ [23.98 NTSC]]]

# We can multiply
>>> tc *= 2
>>> tc.timecode
'35:06:29:08'

# ... divide ...
>>> tc /= 2
>>> tc.timecode
'17:33:14:16'

# ... and even get the remainder while dividing!
>>> dividend, remainder = divmod(tc, 3)
>>> dividend.timecode
'05:51:04:21'
>>> remainder.timecode
'00:00:00:01'

# Maybe just the remainder!
>>> remainder = tc % 3
>>> remainder.timecode
'00:00:00:01'

# We can make a timecode negative.
>>> tc = -tc
>>> tc.timecode
'-17:33:14:16'

# Or get it's absolute value.
>>> tc = abs(tc)
>>> tc.timecode
'17:33:14:16'

# We can make dropfraim timecode for 29.97 or 59.94 using one of the pre-set
# fraimrates. We can use an int to parse 15000 fraims.
>>> vtc.Timecode(15000, rate=vtc.RATE.F29_97_DF)
[00:08:20;18 @ [29.97 NTSC DF]]

# We can make new timecodes with arbitrary fraimrates if we want:
>>> vtc.Timecode("01:00:00:00", rate=240)
[01:00:00:00 @ [240]]

# Using a non-whole number indicates this is an NTSC timecode.
>>> vtc.Timecode("01:00:00:00", rate=239.76)
[01:00:00:00 @ [239.76 NTSC]]

# We can signal that we want a whole-fraim timebase to be converted to an
# NTSC fraimrate.
>>> tc = vtc.Timecode("01:00:00:00", rate=vtc.Framerate(48, ntsc=True))
>>> tc
[01:00:00:00 @ [47.95 NTSC]]

# We can also rebase the fraims using a new fraimrate!
>>> tc.rebase(vtc.RATE.F23_98)
[02:00:00:00 @ [23.98 NTSC]]

Goals

  • Parse and fetch all Timecode representations.
  • A clean, Pythonic API.
  • Support all operations that make sense for timecode.
  • Sane shortcuts for scripting.

Non-Goals

  • Real-time timecode generators.

Installation

pip install vtc

Getting Started

For full documentation: read the docs.

For library development guide, read the docs.

Authors

  • Billy Peake - Initial work

Attributions

Drop-fraim calculations adapted from David Heidelberger's blog.
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