Capturing XDCAM Tape, shouldn’t this be simple?

[Dustyn Gobler]

This doesn’t make logical sense to me. If the Sony deck applies pulldown on the original 24P material and makes new 29.97 footage, when I decomp and go to batch capture, how does the deck recapture the footage. The timecode will be different.

For example; if my 29.97 footage starts a cut at frame 27 or 28, how will the deck know which frame to start the batch capture?

Thank you in advance,

Dustyn

[Enrique Sanchez]

Hello. When you switch the deck to 1080i/59.94 with a 23.98 tape, the deck displays on the screen the 24 TC and the 29.97 TC underneath. So I’m assuming the deck will reference the 29.97 TC and just capture from that point since the 24 TC is locked in with the 29.97.