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Time code shocker!!
I have a big problem…
I have 6 beta sp tapes from 2 cameras, recording a congress. I have sat with the customer and gone through all the tapes, writing the time codes down from the parts of the speeches he wants. So far so good. But when I went to digitise, I noticed that the time codes have been recorded with “time run”. AAAARRRGGGHHH. I cant digitise the tapes, cause of the continual breaks in the code. I have tried it with “record over breaks” setting, but it stops and makes a new clip with every break, thus I lose the first 4 seconds. Not possible like that. Cant do it with the time code button unclicked, cause I need to see the codes from the parts he wants. Cant simply crash record, cause it writes a new continual timecode that doesn’t match that whats on the tape.
So my question is…How can I digitise the tapes so I have exactly the same time code from the tapes? It not so bad with the speeches, cause its a fixed camera, and it runs continually. But the cutaways are a killer. Every time he stops the camera, it makes a break.
Help me, Obi-Wan. Youre my only hope!
Thanks in advance…
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7 Replies
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Did you mean “time of day” timecode versus “record run?” Time of day would have the timecode breaks every time the camera stops and starts. Or are you saying that you have timecode breaks even though it was shot record run?
Michael
anything 24fps
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Yes, thats exactly what I mean. “Time Run” as in recording the time of day. And that is the crux of the problem
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yu can shrten your preroll time to a second and see if that’ll let ya capture all the clips as is.
Otherwise, you can do as you mentioned and crash record/capture with tc turned off then throw that on a new seqyence by itslef, raw. Change your tc number on the sequence to match it’s original tc number on the raw tape(s) then use that sequence as a source.
It’s cheating but it works.
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Or, set preroll to CTL. Or, capture with LTC and let the avid sort out the mess later on (forgot if it chops the clips or not, perhaps you should subclip afterwards)
Bouke
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Sorry if I missed any details in your post, but I think the idea is you need to capture over the TOD TC breaks?
I had to deal with this recently b/c we shot multicam TOD, so the cam’s would sync. I simply set Avid to capture across the breaks and create new clips. Then, I made a bin with whatever the name of the tape was, opened my capture tool (set it to that bin, of course) played the tape and hit record. Avid went through the tape and created clips for every break. Timecode was perfect and all the cam’s synced. Of course, you get some junk clips where the camera might’ve rolled and stopped for whatever reason, so I just deleted those.
HTH
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I have to know, what Beta SP cameras record TOD TC? Never heard of this one before. Sounds like “free run TC” to me :-\
Bill
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Its almost definitely free run with TC set to time so it looks like its Time of Day. Sound recordists do that a lot with sound tapes in film shoots. Very annoying!
FCP Editor, Mumbai, India.
Completely PAL.
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