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Posted by Rolfe Klement on July 18, 2005 at 10:35 am

I went out and bought an imac G5 and FCP on the weekend and it is amazing!! So much easier than anything on windows (and I am completely new to Apple)

Anyway I have been reading the manaul etc and have a technical question

I shot a S16 film with 4 hours of footage and we edited it down to a much shorter section (7 min) – then we exported that to DV

I want to edit it to include new footage from the pick up shoot but it (the DV tape) does not have any timecode and is a linear run from 0.00.00.00 – but I have the edl from the original 2 x 2hr digibetas – so can I take the DV footage and say to it – this is your new timecode ( from the EDL file) – so that the DV tape will now play with the correct timecode – so that when we go back to final conform we can use the EDL from FCP?

I would like to do this without having to go back to the post house and get a run off to DVCAM (since I don’t have a dvcam deck yet..)

Does this question make sense?

thanks

Rolfe Klement
http://www.creativesunshine.com

Bryce Whiteside replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Mark Raudonis
July 18, 2005 at 3:12 pm

Welcome to the world of FCP. Glad you like it. Unfortunately, you’re in deep doo doo here!

Typically, a DV work copy of a film transfer will have a “Window Burn” of the timecode and/or keycode (film frames) so that you can reference the original material. You don’t say if that’s the case with your material.

It sounds like your DV copy is “clean” without any of that information. Trying to match this code is going to be an exercise in frustration. My advice is to bite the bullet and get the transfer done properly: (Matching timecode with a window burn). I know you don’t want to hear this, but you’ll spend more time and effort trying to fix this problem than if you simply started over and reconstructed your timeline.

This is a workflow issue, not a FCP issue. Good luck.

Mark
Bryce Whiteside
July 18, 2005 at 4:14 pm

I am thoroughly confused. Was the pickup shots on mini DV?

Why wasn’t the DigiBeta’s transferred to a DVCAM deck like a Sony DSR-45 that can accept timecode. I used to make DVCAM dubs of my Beta tapes all the time.
DigiBeta component out —————–> component input of DSR-45
DigiBeta timecode out (BNC spigot) –> timecode in DSR-45 (with the DSR-45 set to external timecode)

I haven’t tried this with the scratch disk media FCP records during capture, but QuickTime Pro which you recieved with FCP can reassign the beginning timecode for QT clips. You would have to drop the file on your QT icon or FCP will launch if you click on the capture scratch media. Will the capture scratch media show the new modified timecode in FCP? Will you have to export the clips and reimport? I don’t know.

I do know there is no such time as inserting timecode onto a previously record DV tape.

Feeling Dizzy…
Bryce

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