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Disappearing timecode…
Gentlemen:
Has anyone ever encountered a problem where FCP will randomly not record a TC track or reel # to a clip while capturing? These clips are being batched, no capture now. So far it seems to be completely random, tape format doesn’t matter, codec independent. As you can imagine very scary thing to notice after having captured most of the tapes for a 12 hour offline series.
The number of clips affected is a small percentage of the total media, but I would prefer to nat have to deal with it during the Online.
Any help would be appreciated.
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4 Replies
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This is a scary thing, and it’s happened to me before. Trash your preferences.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Both systems this is happening on recently trashed pref’s, within the last week. Some instances are before and some are after…
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[Eric Johnson] “The number of clips affected is a small percentage of the total media, but I would prefer to nat have to deal with it during the Online.
“Are you capturing to ProRes or ProRes HQ?
If so, look at your Frame Size. Is it half of what you’re expecting? For instance, you’re capturing 1280×720 ProRes but if you look at the Frame Size of one of your clips with no TC or Reel # it shows as 640×360.
We were seeing this issue quite a bit with ProRes HQ so we switched to ProRes. On this documentary I’m working on now, I’m starting to see this very issue show up. Maybe 2 out of every 100 clips and you don’t know it until you get to the clip in question. If it won’t play to the external monitor in realtime, then I know it’s a bad clip and I have to manually refigure out where I captured it from.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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It is actually much worse, the clips losing timecode are either DVC Pro HD 720p60, which is being shot for a slo-mo effect (the timecode is being lost before the conversion to 720p24), bad but not the end of the world since those clips are basically ONLINE. The clips that are the real issue are the clips that are our OFFLINE codec, Offline Photo Jpeg.
It is happening to our 1080PsF 23.98 variant as well as the 720p 23.98 variant. Very lame.
Footage is comimng off of DVC Pro HD stock shot on both Vaicam and HDX-900 as well as HDCAM from a F-900 series 1.
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