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  • Premiere-like Timecode Effect in FCP7

    Posted by George Plymale on February 6, 2010 at 6:09 am

    How would one create a Premiere-like Timecode Effect that is explained here?

    There are a few desirable aspects of this. First, the Format option allows you to select only frames so that you’re not getting the entire SMPTE format, etc. I *must* only display frames.

    Further, I need to be able to “lift” the the timecode from a slug so that it is a floating area with an opacity of ZERO (clear) so one only sees the frame count ascending.

    I cannot imagine that this cannot be done in FCP, but I don’t know if it does provide the tools out of the box. Is there something available that will facilitate this or is there a way to script this effect? Other suggestions? I really hate this feeling at the moment as I’ve been using FCP for a few years now and I just can’t put my finger on how to do this and it’s a critical thing right now. Hate to add Premiere to my workflow for these projects and there are a number of reasons as to why adding them outside of FCP is very undesirable as well. :\

    Thanks for any input/thoughts!

    John Fishback replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Jerry Hofmann

    February 6, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    I’ll bet we can help you, but your link to the example doesn’t go anywhere…

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  • George Plymale

    February 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    Hrm, so sorry. I don’t know how that happened as I linked it up properly. Here is the URL in its raw glory:

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS4AE872FF-BC0F-45e8-AD80-C2784D17CDFEa.html

  • John Fishback

    February 6, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Checkout Timecode Reader and Timecode Generator filters in the FCP manual.

    John

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