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Does FCP (5.0.4) export timecode via firewire?
I have a Sony HDV Deck (M25U) and it says it can accept external timecode from the firewire – but when output a sequence from FCP to the deck, the time code is most definately NOT the sequence timecode – don’t what it is — not random.
So it occurs to me the FCP doesn’t export timecode with the video and audio. Is that true?
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Yes, that’s true. Actually, time code isn’t exported from ANY NLE that I know of. That may change some day, and gosh, do I hope that will happen. But now? It won’t.
It’s a trick that you need to do with your deck. Black and Code the tape starting from 58:00:00, back time your show elements and then use Edit to Tape to punch in at hour 1. That’s how I’ve been doing it on Avid and FCP for years now.
Kevin Monahan
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Not with HDV – since you can only Print To tape and that means so inserts and no assembles.
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Oh man. That’s too bad. I’ll look out for some kind of solution out there because that ain’t good news.
Kevin Monahan
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[Kevin Monahan] “time code isn’t exported from ANY NLE that I know of”
I understand what you’re saying Kevin, but surely it’s true to say that FCP can OUTPUT timecode – via RS422. In the absence of an HDV deck with -422 control, this does little to help the problem. Firewire lacks the protocols to output timecode to HDV, just as it does with DV, but that’s not FCPs fault – it’s the fault of standards commitee that made sure that DV was never anything more than a ‘prosumer’ format. Betcha Sony was on it….
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Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Uh… Ben,
You’re wrong. FCP does NOT output TC even with RS-422. Read it? Sure. Output it … No way.Mark
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Right. I just reread this thread in the cold light of day (not at 2am after an 8 hour studio show), and you are 100 percent correct – as was Kevin. FCP does not ‘output’ sequence TC, except to an external control surface via midi.
RS-422 does however solve this guy’s problem, if it were available on an HDV deck (as it is on DVCAM decks). I suppose it comes down to Sony deciding that HDV is a pro delivery format (which it isn’t) and releasing a ‘proper’ (read expensive) HDV deck with HD-SDI out and RS-422. Be useful.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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