-
Break in timecode when I edit to tape.
I am running 4.5HD on a dual 2.7 G5 with a Black Majic card installed. When I toggle off the timecode option in the edit to tape window and perform an insert edit to a pre-striped digi there is a timecode break at the in point on the tape. Has anyone run across this problem, and more importantly, does anyone know of a fix? Thanks so much in advance!
-
11 Replies
-
My two cents….what I’ve done in the past is that I do the insert edit before the tc break, and after, also I make sure that in my settings i have checked “edit accross tc breaks” or something to that matter. Another way of doing it,(risky) its by selecting the insert edit put in on a new sequence and make sure your clip that you are inserting has the TC in and TC out exactly as you DBSP, then do an assemble edit.
Hope it helps.
Rogelio
-
How long did you black and code for? I do recall the tape stoping once when I didn’t give enough pre-roll or black the tape long enough for FCP to lock on to timecode.
I have the same config you do.
Doug -
I am blacking and coding a full 6 minute digi. I have preroll set up for 5 seconds. I have used 10 seconds in the past and still get the same break in timecode.
-
My problem is that there is no break in the timecode originally. The tape is “basiced”, or black and timecode are layed down before I try my edit. The break in the code occurs at the first frame of the inpoint that FCP is inserting.
-
Have you selected the editing drop down menu instead of mastering or vice versa?
-
Yeah, I am using editing instead for mastering, and I am still getting the TC break.
-
Why are you turning off the TC option? I can’t imagine this is what the manual states. We do inserts all the time to our Digibeta A500. Works like a charm (except for the audio). Select the Editing tab at the top of the ETT window, punch in you in point, select you in/out on the timeline and Insert. No need to toggle off the tc button. FCP does not write timecode. It only reads the tc on the tape.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc. -
There should NEVER be a TC break in the ADDRESS track during an INSERT edit – NEVER. How do you see this break? By jogging slowly over the edit point? If so, the break you’re seeing is most likely a jump in the VITC time-code, not the address track.
This can happen on ANY editing system if the TC settings of the VTR are not setup properly for the system controlling it.
I’m using an DVW-A500 w/FCP, and my TC settings are as follows:
INT/EXT = INT
FREE RUN/REC RUN = FREE RUN
REGEN/PRESET = PRESETNow, most people will tell you that all VTR’s should be set to INT, REGEN and REC RUN, but they’d be wrong. It all depends on the application controlling the VTR and the VTR model/make itself. FCP requires these setting with the A500 because FCP can take control of the TCG of the deck (used to jam sync the TC on the deck to a number FCP tells it to), and it requires these setting to do so. If these settings are wrong, you’ll get VITC TC jumps at every edit point.
Good luck.
Michael Buday
-
I have tried it with the TC toggled on and off, and in both cases I am getting the same timecode break. I am also using a A500. The timecode break is not a visable break, but when I play the timecode point in question, the deck flags that frame as a break.
-
When I perform an insert edit with FCP to A500, the insert timecode light (button) come on in the deck. Do you know if there is anyway to disable this?
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up