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Best practice for working with T/C dubs
I’m really struggling with this particular edit job and I wondered if I was doing it the right way… I can’t find any books that reference using T/C references properly.
Ok got a lot of footage shot on a number of different days in different european countries/locations. The client wanted time coded VHS dubs so they could choose the clips they wanted and write them down for me to edit down; this resulted in around 7 hours of footage spread onto 3 VHS tapes. This was how I did the VHS dubs… Created a sequence for each tape droped the relevant clips onto the timeline and edited out the crap. Then I nested the whole sequence and dropped a timecode generator onto the nest file. I then rendered this and saved it out to DV tape. This I then dubbed to VHS and gave to the client.The client gave me back a list of ‘rough’ timecodes and said that this was to identify the rough start and end points for each clip they wanted and that I would be able to tell exactly when to start/stop. So far so good.
Of course I could not ‘slice’ the nested sequence from the timeline because as soon as I made my first cut the T/C reset for the whole sequence. I couldn’t cut up the original un-nested sequence as it had no time code. So I was in a bit of a quandary. Here is how I am doing it, but it is very slow and labourious. I lay out three sequences on screen. The original clips, the nested sequence and the ‘new’ sequence. I open the nested (T/C) sequence in the viewer window, the original in the Canvas window and move the timeline marker in both to 00:00:00;00 then I gang them. This means as I scrub on the originals, the viewer shows the current T/C, I then razor the required clip at start and end point, copy it, do undo three times (to remove the razor points and then paste it into the ‘New’ sequence.
As I have many hours to sort out I wondered if there is an easier way I should be doing this? The only other thing I could think of was producing a clip with burned in TC, but these are nearly three hours long so would be quite a lot of space.
Any ideas? Also I save the layout as a custom arrangement, burt when I re-open the project and re-load it only one timeline appears instead of three – how can I save this so I don’t have to mess on setting it all up each time?
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Cheers,
Chrome
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Sorry, but you should have used the Timecode READER (not generator).
Its another choice in the settings on the TC print filter.It would have shown the TC from the original footage.
The way most of these things are done is to dub the ORIGINAL TAPES to VHS with the characters (TC, etc.) switched “on” of the deck or camcorder that was dubbing to VHS.
This would show the clients EVERYTHING (they usually ASK if there was “another take that was better”.
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