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Any way to make FCP read the embedded DV timecode in an .avi file?
I occasionally have to capture DV .avi files on a Windows-based Premiere Pro system and then edit those files in FCP 7, which imports and works with the .avis natively with no issues except for one – it doesn’t read the embedded timecode, and so every video clip has a start timecode of 00:00:00:00.
Does anyone know of any ways of getting FCP to read the embedded timecode, preferably without having to transcode the .avis in any way? The data is there in the clip, surely there’s some way FCP can access it.
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Hi
With Premiere 6.5 (Mac) captured clips imported into FCP had their timecode in one of FCP’s Aux timecode tracks, so it was readable in the Browser.
Its probably unlikely that that will apply to cross-platform captures, but maybe worth checking. -
Thanks Paul, but sadly there’s nothing in either of the Aux TC tracks.
Having Googled around, it seems that this is a longstanding issue with no solution. Given that the TC is embedded into the file, you’d think that if FCP can read the video and audio with no problems, it would be able to read the TC as well.
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Hi,
I have the same problem — the original timecode is in the file names but FCP doesn’t read it and resets the tc of every video to 00. Is it really the case that FCP can’t read the original tc??
Thanks,
Robert
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