negative feet.frames offset? is it even possible?

[sndgeek]

Running a timecode session starting at 00:59:30:00. Feet.frames don't start until 01:00:00:00. This leaves me with a 45+00 difference between the start of the session and start of the feet.frames burn-in on my QT picture, which corresponds to the EDL I got from the editor last week.

I'd like to put a negative offset in the 'feet.frames offset' dialog box, but it doesn't like a negative value. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I'd also like to avoid changing my session start time to 01:00:00:00. (Currently the QT movie starts before the hour mark.)

Thanks in advance!

Alex, the sound geek

TDM Mix+, PT 5.1.3 (OS 9.2.2), G4 933 quicksilver