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Getting footage on Timeline at Timecode of clip
Hi there,
I’m trying to figure out how to get each clip that is recorded to hard drive with TC to sit on the Sequence timeline at the location of the clip.
Meaning, if the clip starts at 01:01:10:01 then it will snap to that location on the timeline.
We’re shooting with 2 cameras and also syncing graphics the is shot over a day.
At the moment, I have to manually type the location for each clip.
Is there a faster automatic way of doing it? I have some 170 clips.
Cheers
Clinton
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20 Replies
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Sort by tc in the browser?
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Yeah, that sorts the clips ok, but dragging them onto the timeline just butts them together, these clips have gaps between them which need to be maintained.
Thanks for the suggestion at anyrate.
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I am unaware of a way to do this barring some sort of custom XML integration.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be done, though!
Jeremy
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That’s what slugs are for.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
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What’s a slug?
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[Clinton Smith] “What’s a slug?”
A gastropos mollusk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug
A slug a simply a black clip. You can put them in between your clips, but it won’t help you match timecodes.
What exactly are you trying to do?
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I’m trying to sync small clips from different cameras, to a continuous recording of graphics which will then be split to match the smaller clips and then condensed ready for editing.
Everything we shoot is in a chronological order, we make training videos.
The graphics come out of Keynote.
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Got ya. Sounds like you got some work ahead of you.
For now, you are just typing the tc in the timeline that matchers your clip, yeah?
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Yeah,
I’ve found that I can double click to put it in the preview window and then I copy and paste the tc so that means I don’t have to physically “type” it. Which would be awful.
It seems odd to me that FCP doesn’t have a feature to put clips at the timecode location. I think I remember that Premiere does do it.
I’ll keep truckin on.
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[Clinton Smith] “I’ve found that I can double click to put it in the preview window and then I copy and paste the tc so that means I don’t have to physically “type” it. Which would be awful. “
You can do one better than that. You can option click the tc from ‘Media In’ in the bowser and the CTI will go to that time code. Load that clip in the viewer and assemble edit.
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