embedded timecode (VITC)

I have had a quicktime master rejected by Universal QC on the grounds that it has "no timecode embedded in the file".

I don't see anything in Premiere's export dialogues about including or excluding TC.

How do I solve this?




(PS - This is not about visual burned-in timecode; they're looking for 'embedded timecode' as part of the file; i.e., what you'd get on a tape master, for instance.)

Why not use a software which can preserve the timecode from original video? Plenty of freeware and paid one can do that job.

Erm to the best of my knowledge this is pretty automatic. How can it not have timecode? Do they possibly mean that it doesn't start at 10 hours? So it starts at 0?

I deliver Quicktime ProRes HQ out of Premiere for international QC all the time and have not heard this one before.