Batch Exporting with timecodes…

[John Pale]

Forget using FCP’s batch export.

Use Compressor 3 to add a timecode burn in and convert to other formats, but you may be looking at monstrous processing time if you have hundreds of hours of footage.

You might want to look at hardware alternatives….
HDV deck(s) (that can display burned in timecode) to DVD recorder(s)

[Bob Flood]

hi

do yourself a favor, go to best buy (or circuit city, or even radio shack) and get a cheap dvd recorder, and feed your hdv deck audio and video into the recorder adn make your transcription copies that way

we have an m10u and you can display the Time Code on the video outs as well as on the built in LCD screen and plug that into a Lite On Set Top DVD recorder. If we are jammed up we also use our camera and feed a second dvd recorder, also a lite on. you dont tie up your fcp box, its realtime, and its cheap. (besides unless you have an army of transcribers standing by, its always going to take longer to transcribe than to make dvd’s)

what would be slick is if we could find a foot pedal controller for a dvd player we could give to our transcriber

hope this helps

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Brian Findlay]

Hi John,
I’ve looked though compressor 3 and haven’t found any transcode options that will show timecodes.. is this what you are talking about?

I know how to pull my video into a timeline pull a tc from the effects window and run compressor to another..but I need to do this on hundreds of hours and am looking for something that is less intensive from work that needs to be done on my side from my side.

I work a full time day job, so I can let it run from midnight until 6:00 PM the next day, so I should be able to render out about 2 tapes a day on a quad intel mac.. not great but I’m not seeing alot of alternatives right now.

What I want to do is make it the least work intensive that I can.. If there is a setting or something in compressor, could you let me know about it?

Also Transcription software? Are you aware of anything decent out there?

Many thanks.. Brian

[Brian Findlay]

Hey Bob,
I think this is a very practical solution.. it seems to be the best of a really bad situation 😉

All my stuff was shot on Canons in 30F.. so there is no dec that I am aware of that will play it.. but they do sell the HV-20 that will display timecodes for about $800 (I’ve been told), so this is likely my best option. I’ve got an XL-H1 and XH-A1.. I really don’t want to use either of them for this.. it was bad enough I downloaded all the stuff to my MAC with them.

I’m ignorant on DVD Recorders, anything to look for or not look for?

Also.. my second dilemma has been transcription software.. it doesn’t really seem to exist. I’m a SW Engineer, I think it would be a WONDERFUL side business to develop something real as I don’t think it exists..though it would stop my film cold for the better part of a year developing it (so I aint gunna do it).. What do you use for transcriptions.. just a word processor? I’d love to know because I’ve only found one decent package written so far but its in Brazilian Portuguese.
I’m talking to the author of it.. I may get it translated.

Thanks!

Brian

[John Pale]

[Brian Findlay] “I’ve looked though compressor 3 and haven’t found any transcode options that will show timecodes.. is this what you are talking about?
“

You can add burned in timecode to any transcode option using the timecode generator filter.
After applying your preset, go to the filter pane of the inspector and check the Timecode Generator filter from the list.

See page 249-250 of Compressor Help for more details.

[Brian Findlay]

Beautiful!

I’ve never used any of these functions of Compressor.. I always did this in the timeline and figured that was the only way to do it.. Thanks!!!

Brian