So. Somewhere between the last time I needed to do subtitling at work and today - when I'm doing it again - there was a Quicktime update. An update that induced some pretty serious gayness, as I've illustrated above. The player used to display the FPS of a file using the timecode of the file itself - 29.97 in this case - and now it displays it in base 99. For some fucking reason. 00:53.85 in the player is actually 00:53.28 (or thereabouts) in the editing and compositing software.

I don't know what manner of asswhole thought this was a good idea, but they deserve to be punched for making my job a hell of a lot more tedious.

My options are to keep Calculator.app out for conversions, or to switch to using Final Cut Pro in place of the Quicktime Player, since FCP actually displays the frigging FPS properly.

Update : Turns out FCP works exceedingly well in this role, better than the Quicktime Player ever did. However, Teh Ghey has spread to After Effects, which repeatedly runs out of memory on the G5 (which has 2048), while functioning Just Fine (and, in fact, a hell of a lot faster) on the G4/733 (which has 1024). Go figure.