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Timecode Viewer
Is there any way to show different timecode sources in the new Timecode Viewer window?
I want to be able to show clip timecode for various clips that are in the sequence like the AVID timecode window. This info is available in the overlays that are in the canvas but not in the (cue drumroll) awesome new Timecode Viewer feature?!?!I know the Aux 1 and Aux 2 lines are there but they are pretty meaningless. Seriously, does anyone know what use they are? Is there anyway to change them.
This seems like such a basic feature that I know has to be there and I am just missing it somewhere
(I hope).Thanks
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Sorry. Only the timeline timecode is available in the new viewer.
Shane
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It displays the source timecode when the Viewer window is selected!!
There is no PLIST I can edit?
This seems like a very simple feature. I can’t believe that its not there!!!
What exactly are the AUX timecodes? -
It reads the timecode of the active window. For the Canvas that is the timeline timecode. For the Viewer it is source. Aux TC is secondary timecode you can assign to footage. But I am not near a machine with FCP so I can’t report on what that means for the TC viewer
Shane
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AUX TC is a second (or third, FCP/QT has two aux) TC track.
You can assign any timecode you see fit to that.
The name is not only for QT TC, but is used even before QT existed.If you have audio timecode on a sound track, that is also called ‘aux TC’, as it is a second TC track.
(Hence the name of my FCP AUX TC reader, that converts the audio TC to QT aux TC.More examples:
By default it’s 00:00:00:00, thus it acts as a CTL counter.You could set it to TOD (while i’m thinking of it, i’ll build that into the QT change app.)
So on a file based multicam shoot when the cams have not recorded the same TC, if their clocks were sync you are saved.Not only it is handy in some situations to have more than one TC track, for operations like re-capture you MUST keep the original TC track, altering that is most of the time not wise…
If you do a music video with playback of the song, you could use a LTC (audio) TC track on one channel of the song to play back, and record that on the cam.
In post, use that to create an AUX track so all your takes line up without effort.Makes sense?
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My question is more specifically directed to the use of the AUX tracks in the new TC viewer window.
they really serve no purpose in this window. The TC viewer window seems really crippled especially since AVID has had a very functional TC window for years now. I loathe sitting in front of an AVID anymore but I would figure that Apple would be at least be paying attention to the few things that AVID does well.Lou …
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They are paying attention. They got the timecode viewer, now they just need to refine it.
Shane
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