This is a great tip from friend of the Mac Mediacast Brian Gary over at the most awesome-est website, KenStone.net:

QuickTime is the engine that runs most (if not all) media related applications on the Mac, with Final Cut Studio being a prime example. You tend to hear often, “If QuickTime can open the file then you can work with it in Final Cut.” That’s because it’s QuickTime that’s doing all the heavy lifting with the codecs that enable it to play and manipulate all the digital files.

QuickTime has gone through many iterations–as of this writing it’s in version 7.4. But a scarcely documented feature was added around QuickTime version 7.1.6 that is quite handy: The ability to display the actual timecode of a clip, not just the running counter.

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