ASAP . burning reference DVD w/ TC

[Jeremy Garchow]

Put all of your clips in the timeline and add the timecode reader filter on the clips. The timecode reader filter is located in the ‘video’ folder. Export to compressor and burn away.

[Juli Brown]

Jeremy, I am just trying to use TC generator (in FCP4.5) right now, but none of the books i have are helpful. I nested a copy of the timeline so it would be smooth (no cuts, in FCP2 TC Generator used to jump back to zero at the cuts). I couldn’t figure out the offset ( I wanted 00:59:58 at the 2 beep on the academy leader) so just started at oo at the first frame of bars & tone. Meanwhile, 2 hrs later its still rendering onto my38 min timeline. Then it’ll be another few hours to convert it to a .mov file. All of this is to make a usable ‘video’ to load onto a firewire so the sound editors can start working.

Any tips on how to streamline this process or control parameters of the tc generator? (yes I read the manual, still a bit confused)

[Annaël Beauchemin]

the TC generator/reader should have realtime *playback* on a fast computer. I know it works fine on a G5 2×2.

So, the fastest way to have a DVD dub with TC burn-in would be then to use a standalone DVD recorder and record directly from timeline playback (you can’t use print to video, it will render it all).

Some DVD recorder even have firewire inputs, so this would limit quality loss compared to dubbing via analog inputs.

But beware that any filter or transistion needs to be rendered (red bar). You can render those sections selectively via Seuqence – > Render Selection -> Needs render.

[Juli Brown]

Hi, the render took a while but worked fine. We have a g4 single processor, so the realtime thing doesnt seem to work (at least not in the timeline, must render). Thanks for advice.