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“searching for timecode break”
I’ve seen this addressed in other posts, but still don’t understand. I have some footage the was taken in 24p, on minidv, on a panasonic hvx200. I tried to log and capture it into FCP, however, I was unsuccessful, and the message I got back was “searching for timecode breaks”. I am fairly certain that the camera automatically records in timecode.
We resolved the issue by hitting a function in the log and capture menu that said “non controllable device” and manually pressing “play” on the recorder , however, I’m still interested in knowing if anyone has an answer for why this happened in the first place.
Thanks.
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Sometimes this happens because you did not stripe your tape. What this means is, you record black, uninterrupted, on your whole tape, laying down the timecode for the whole thing. If you don’t do this, every time you turn off your camera and then turn it on again to film more, the timecode resets itself to 00:00:00, thus having two instances of the same timecode on your tape.
However, I have seen this happen with people who have striped their tapes, so I don’t know exactly why it happens in those instances.
Try striping (just put it in your camera, and record something for an hour uninterrupted).
If it still doesn’t work, just press play and use the capture now function.Supposedly, if you set fcp to “make new clip” upon timecode break (in your settings) it will create a new timecode for those after a break. But I’ve never seen that work, for some reason.
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