embedded TC on DVD for editing

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I may not be clear on what your client wants. But if I understand correctly, here is what I would do.

Play your original footage and record to a DVD recorder using the overlay output from the tape machine. This gives you the tape TC over the footage. They can use this to reference specific clips and be TC accurate.

Ideally, record one tape to one DVD, with the DVD’s labeled identically to the tapes.

Then when they give you the digitize list, you go back to the original tapes and digitize away! Just don’t use the overlay output of the deck at this stage, of course.

Jon
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[Bouke Vahl]

No problem to put LTC on one of the audio channels.
VITC is not possible on DVD (all players crop it off)

If someone ingests the DVD in his NLE there are a few problems (and solutions)

AVID can read audio TC just fine.
FCP CANNOT. You need my FCP AUX TC reader for that.
Besides working with FCP over XML, it can also work stand alone, read the audio TC from ingested clips and put a QT timecodetrack in the files.

Another option is to put a hardware LTC reader between the DVD player and NLE to convert to 422 on the fly.

But why DVD? What’s wrong with tape / harddisk if some other editor has to work with the files?

Bouke

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