• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  repairing broken timecode?

  Posted by Baba Goof on August 1, 2006 at 8:03 pm

  i have some tapes that need timecode repair. can anyone point
  me to a guide for doing so with a hvr-z1u? we also have a deck,
  also a sony. tapes are hdv. some are 29.97, some 25 (50i). is
  it possible to do this by plugging the camera and deck together
  directly? or do we need the computer between them?

  thanks,
  BabaG

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  Scott Davis

  August 1, 2006 at 11:45 pm

  You can’t “repair” TC but; you could dub the tapes with unbroken TC. This will have no relationship to the original tapes but it “repairs” TC breaks. Best thing to do is to make sure you don’t create TC breaks when shooting. N
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  Baba Goof

  August 2, 2006 at 1:07 am

  thanks scott. no choice with these tapes. somebody else shot them
  and they seem to have their shooting habits well ingrained. what i
  was wondering about was the dubbing method. tried one pass from the
  camera to a fresh tape on the deck but there were glitches on the
  copy when it got to the breaks. was wondering if i need to use pre-
  blacked tapes to make the dub. or if i missed a setting on the deck
  or camera. did i have the tape ‘cloned,’ breaks and all, when i
  should have had the recording deck in another mode to continuously
  lay fresh code?

  thanks again,
  BabaG
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  August 2, 2006 at 2:21 am

  What is the FORMAT?

  DV BetaSP DigiBeta?

  If its DV you should be making the dub via FireWire.

  There should be no actual “glitches” at the break-points (you’ll SEE the break, but the TC and actual video/audio on the dub should be fine. Make sure the deck is set to INTERNAL TC.

  It its an ANALOG tape, you’ll probably have some tearing at the breaks.
  Pre-blacking the new tape and recording the copy as an INSERT will help.

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