• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Timecode breaks and workarounds

  Posted by Baz Leffler on April 2, 2006 at 1:58 am

  Unlike some other editing programs Premiere does not monitor timecode once capture has started. I have found many “not so great cameramen” using Digibeta camera’s tend to cause small timecode jumps in a single tape when they button on and off. This normally wouldn’t be a problem UNLESS you are like me and ‘off line’ in DV and ‘on line’ in uncompressed 10 bit.

  When I off line I capture complete tapes and edit from this ‘one file per tape’ senario. After completing the off line I use the project manager and create a trimmed version which creates small individual files of all the parts used, Then I take it into the on line system and recapture the clips. As the tape gets further down to the end the timecodes get further and further out and can be up to 6 seconds out at the end of a 40 min tape.

  I have been using SClive on the ‘off line capture’ (which optically detects on capture and creates separte files) to get around this problem but the down side is that it is no longer a single file per tape where I can just scrub up and down so I have to create a sequence per tape and place all the associated clips for that tape into it.

  Anyone here got a better solution? (other than lobbying Adobe to add timecode monitoring during capture)

  Baz Leffler replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Wolf

  April 4, 2006 at 1:59 am

  Hi

  i have the same problem!
  It
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  Mike Velte

  April 4, 2006 at 7:49 pm

  I have used ScenalyzerLive for years, it is like a Swiss army knife. I hear that is will jump up to 3 seconds of broken timecode. Try a demo of it and let us know.
  http://www.scenalyzer.com
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  Baz Leffler

  March 13, 2007 at 7:04 am

  I have found the ultimate solution for these timecode jumps… USE FINAL CUT PRO

  If you use the ‘capture now’ feature with FCP it will detect the breaks/jumps in timecode and create separate clips with the associated correct timecodes; ideal when using “time of day” timecode as used in multicamera broadcast applications.

  NOW… my next big problem is that all the FCP clips play the wrong timecode in Premiere; in fact they all start at 08:06:40:00 AND RUN BACKWARD when playing a clip… I guess I will have to edit on FCP as well now. I am now thinking the ‘pro’ in Premiere has a different meaning than the ‘pro’ in Final Cut.

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