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Digitize through broken time code?
I’m digitizing lots of miniDV tapes on a G5 with FCP 4.5 on it.
Now oddly enough the producers and directors from this program shot the video with Time of Day time-code. so literally everytime they stopped and started recording theres new timecode (and according to FCP: a timecode BREAK). I’ve been going through and letting the video crash dig. in and letting FCP rename the clips in numerical order. I know for a fact that I can dig. through broken time-code on my premiere system.
Is there a digitizing setting I can change to crash digitize through broken time code? If so I will crash in ten minute chunks at a time.
Any response is welcome,
Thanks in advance,
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NO NO NO.
Do not crash digitize. This is not something that’s unique to FCP.
AVID and any Pro edit system is the same. You need to playback
your tape and log/name each scene. This is how any good editor
would do it. This makes for much faster editing.
Then you batch digitize all your logged scenes.Dan
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Do what Dan says. Time code is EXTREMELY important, so don’t capture in a way that will cause you to lose that information. LOG & CAPTURE…that is the way professionals do it, and it way it is expected to be done. Makes the capture process longer, but the edit process quicker.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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I’v had a simular situation. If it’s possible copy the tapes with new timecode.
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I fail to see what is wrong with logging and capturing…
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Sure there’s settings in the User Preferences that tell FCP what to do when it hits a TC break.
You may want to try Logging large chunks of the tape at a time and set FCP to “Create a New Clip” at each TC break. This will take much longer than just crash digitizing, but without TimeCode, you’ll never be able to bring the project back at a later date.
If you do to ahead and log each and every timecode break, be sure to leave enough pre-roll at the beginning of each logged clip to allow the VTR to cue up.
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[Shane Ross] “I fail to see what is wrong with logging and capturing…”
The same thing that’s wrong with obeying fire codes, building codes, worker safety codes when building a sky scraper- it takes longer & costs more to do it right than it does to cut corners. Until, that is, your job site is shut down by an accident.
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