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Free run time code problems, what am I missing??
I have a 4 camera show that had each camera recording iso and they were switching it to a program tape. All 5 sources had synced free run timecode. I decided to just digitize everything they shot so I would have all the takes when the client was here to edit. I was also going to try out the new mulit-cam feature for the first time with this project. To my surprise, when I went to sync up the cameras the timecode didn’t match! On closer inspection I saw that the starting timecode was correct, but from there, Premiere created seamless record-run timecode. So after the first time one of the cameras stopped rolling, my timecode was out of sync. I tried looking through the help file, I tried the Adobe website, and I searched here, and no one else seems to have had this problem. That makes me think I’m missing a setting somewhere. I looked everywhere for a setting that would let me specify the source had free run timecode, but I can’t find anything. Where am I going wrong? I thought I was all ready for this edit I’m having tomorrow, but now I’m sweating! Is there something I can do other than capture individual clips between the timecode breaks? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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The AVI format does not accomodate running timecode as such. The way the avi format works is to enter the timecode start info into the avi header and then does a frame count based on that… so if there are any timecode breaks it does not get detected (I have mentioned this elsewhere either here or at the adobe forums). You can thank Bill Gates for that one for not future proofing his products.
The only work around is to use a program that detects the changes and captures separate avi’e eg SCLive. Or use an Avid that captures Quicktime where running timecode is also entered into the data.
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