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Adding a timecode reader to a project
I’m trying to put a timecode on a film so it can be translated. The film is 25 fps, so is my sequence. Why when I put the timecode reader filter on my film does it start at 00:17:11 instead of 0, it means that the timecode on the film doesn’t match with the timecode on my sequence. I need the two to match so I can do the translations accurately. I am a complete amateur so apologies for lack of knowledge!
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Hi Beth
gonna attempt answer your question with a question or two: are you performing this task in a PAL project? OK I see you mention your sequence is 25 fps but ensure everything is PAL set – up – the easiest way to do this is to go to easy set up, available on the pull down under “final Cut Pro” right next to the apple at top left of your screen and choose DV-PAL.
Beth just be methodical, the TCR plug-in is pretty basic and it is probably that something is not in PAL..Paul runs Competent Artistes, a very busy small Johannesburg-based production company working in broadcast and corporate for everything from governments to oil and mining companies, funky radio stations and music companies and pro bono for Nelson Mandela and his Children’s Fund. Competent Artistes is CNN’s outside production company for Southern Africa, Paul reports regularly on-air with company-produced reports for CNN. Paul relaxes by racing highly modified ATV quad bikes illegally in midnight quarter mile street races against M3s on nitro outside the Mozambican Parliament, a beautiful straight stretch of tar in Maputo.
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Hi Paul,
Brilliant thanks, think that must have been the problem had been working with some HDV stuff previously. Really appreciate your help.
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[Beth Jepson] ” Why when I put the timecode reader filter on my film does it start at 00:17:11 instead of 0, it means that the timecode on the film doesn’t match with the timecode on my sequence. I need the two to match so I can do the translations accurately. I am a complete amateur so apologies for lack of knowledge!”
This is because you’re putting the TC Reader on the individual clips. When you do this, it reads the TC of the clips instead of the timeline as you want.
There’s two ways to do this.
One. In Final Cut Pro, Nest your entire sequence and THEN apply the TC Reader to the nest. Now it will read the TC of the Sequence instead of the individual clips.
Two and even easier. Export a Quicktime from your Sequence. UNCheck “Make Self Contained Movie.” so you make a reference file.
Launch Compressor and drag that QT into Compressor.
In the Filters Window, turn on the Timecode Generator.
This will create a compressed quicktime file with a TC window burned in.
Also, last but not least, Quicktime 7 can read Timecode in the counter now. So when you play a quicktime clip that has timecode, you can switch the counter to display timecode.
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[Paul Tilsley Johannesburg] “Beth just be methodical, the TCR plug-in is pretty basic and it is probably that something is not in PAL.. “
The TCR plug-in supports all frame rates. She’s just putting the plug-in on an individual clip instead of a Nested Sequence.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Biscardi Creative MediaCreative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. -
Will the compressor method actually created sequence timecode that matches my timeline?
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