---
id: "smpte_timecode"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["media", "datetime"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/smpte_timecode"
---

# SMPTE timecode (`smpte_timecode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Position in a video or audio recording as hours, minutes, seconds and frames (HH:MM:SS:FF), as defined by the SMPTE 12M standard and used in editing, subtitles and broadcast logs. Drop-frame timecode, used with 29.97 frames per second, puts a semicolon before the frames, as in 01:00:03;18. The highest frame number depends on the frame rate, so the regexp accepts 00 to 59.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Media and entertainment (media), Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d[:;][0-5]\d$
```

## Examples

- `01:00:00:00` — One hour, non-drop-frame
- `01:00:03;18` — Drop-frame timecode
- `00:59:56:12`
- `01:00:00` (invalid example) — Time of day without frames
- `25:00:00:00` (invalid example) — Hour out of range

## Translations

- ru: Тайм-код SMPTE: Позиция в видео- или аудиозаписи в часах, минутах, секундах и кадрах (ЧЧ:ММ:СС:КК) по стандарту SMPTE 12M.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_timecode>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/smpte_timecode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/media/smpte_timecode.yaml>