• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Timecode, drop-frame problem.

  Posted by Brady Hall on December 13, 2006 at 9:59 pm

  Hello,

  I recently upgraded to Premiere Pro 2.0 from 6.0c. I have a handle on pretty much everything but am running into one extremely annoying issue.

  I have two DV tapes of telecined 16mm footage. I had it transferred with a window burn of the video timecode. I captured both tapes into my machine via firewire. I checked the timecode in PPro and the embedded timecode matches up perfectly with the window burn. No problems there. I did notice that the timecode on this captured footage is non-drop frame (:, not ;).

  Ok, so then I make a new project and sync up the DAT audio takes to the clapper. Fine and dandy. I render a new DV AVI from this project so I can cut the newly audio synced clips. I put these newly rendered files into a new project and here is the problem:

  The timecode on these newly rendered clips is drop frame (;). So the embedded timecode does not match up to the window burn anymore. I do not see any way to create a DV AVI with non-drop frame.

  Why does Premiere capture in non-drop frame but cannot render as such? I need to have the embedded timecode match the window burn so I can generate an edit list and do a master output from the digibeta master tapes. I also will need to do this for a traditional negative cut down the line.

  Ideas?

  Brady Hall replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  December 14, 2006 at 1:21 am

  I understand the issue, and I don’t think there is an solution here on DV export, but why export as DV AVI if you are going to Digibeta ? It seems that compressing at 5:1 would defeat the whole purpose of using a final 2:1 output such as Digibeta. Most of the other export options, including uncompressed AVI will allow you to change your frame settings. Forgive me if I am missing something in your workflow…

  Vince
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  Brady Hall

  December 14, 2006 at 1:32 am

  We want to edit on DV because it works quickly on my machine with no rendering needed for preview. I edit the project, generate an EDL and give that to our guy at the lab who can spit out a digibeta master on the fancy pants machine. I’ll need to be able to do this for other projects anyway that deal with actual film cutting. I will need to generate a frame accurate EDL for the negative cutter. I was able to do this on Premiere 6.0 and it makes no sense that Pro 2.0 can’t do it.

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