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Hope there is someone that might be able to help with this... I'm doing sound on a multicam live event shoot this week. The record and edit frame rate is set to 23.976FPS (NDF) and thus I will be recording at 48kHz. There will be a sequence that will require playback and I am intending to send timecode from my audio system to each camera using wireless link. I will probably also try and get a smart slate on set so that there is at least some visual representation of the timecode. Unfortunately my audio playback system doesn't support 23.976ND fps - the lowest timecode rate it will go to is 24fps. This means I can't generate timecode at the right rate for playback. I'm anticipating this to be a problem. I can send timecode out from the playback system at most rates, just not 23.976ND I am proposing to lay 30fps timecode up against the audio and send this to a smart slate so at least it will be possible to synch both cameras up against the audio track that I have recorded, even if the end framerate they will be using is different. This is the first time I have come up against this little issue, so I would be grateful if forum members could possibly shed some light on this and suggest possible alternatives. cheers, Mark