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linsomniacyesterday at 11:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I wish more cameras with GPSes supported SMTPE or something to mark the video with a time code. I get the sense that GPS time is accurate to within 1/30th of a second, if not way way more, but even if it just got me in the neighborhood so I could nudge it a frame or two one way or another.

I like recording things like my kids performances with a GoPro or two, and sometimes my wife or I get some shots on our phones. Multi-cam can be fantastic when you have people walking around in front of cameras, for example.

I used to have a majorly hard time syncing the multiple cameras shots, though the last time I did it (a couple months ago) I had much better luck with the "sync using audio" feature, in the past I've had problems. But why can't we have a timecode with the video stream, in the cases of GPS cameras (I think everyt camera I have now has a GPS)?


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pezezintoday at 12:32 AM

> I get the sense that GPS time is accurate to within 1/30th of a second, if not way way more

You are off by 6 orders of magnitude, GPS time is accurate to within 30 ns: https://www.gps.gov/gps-accuracy