Getting footage on Timeline at Timecode of clip

[Bouke Vahl]

If i’m not mistaken, Andreas Kiel has made a tool just for this.
Go to wwwspherico.com and nose around, i forgot the name of the tool.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Tom Wolsky]

Click on the current location in the viewer to select it. Option drag the TC from the current location in the viewer to the current location at the head of the timeline or in the canvas, which will leap the playhead to where you want to be.

All the best,

Tom

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[Andy Mees]

ya, its called SequenceLiner and he announced it very recently
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/sequenceLiner/

[Luke Price]

Wouldn’t a Multiclip Sequence create your base timeline?

1 Select your clips in the browser
2 Right+click (or CTRL+click) to bring up the men
3 Select ‘Make Multiclip Sequence’
4 In the pop up window select ‘Use Stating Timecode’ from the drop down at the top.

This will create a timeline starting with the timecode of the earliest source clip selected and the rest of the clips following it at the correct timecode locations with gaps in between.

Is that what you’re after?

Luke

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID

[Clinton Rocksmith]

Yes Luke,

That was it. FANTASTIC.

You absolutely ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andreas Kiel]

Luke’s method will work in many cases – it seems to work in this case – but in many cases it won’t work.
That’s why I created sequenceLiner.
You simply export some bins and a target sequence as XML
Each bin which is loaded will create one track for the video (if there is video) and maybe several tracks for audio in the target sequence. The track order can changed within the apps interface easily.
During the “line up” process each clip will be placed into the sequence according to the clip’s timecode.
This is great if you want to line up video with external audio even with multiple cameras.
Below a link to a screenshot from a part of the resulting sequence of a project with four cameras where not all of the cameras where used at certain times. Audio comes from an eight channel audio HDR where also depending on the scene not all channels where used.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/sequenceLiner/images/sequenceLiner_sequence1.jpg
So sequenceLiner is a great tool to prepare dailies, multiclips, preparing a sequence for the classical way of working with multiple cameras or just link all your external BWAV mono files.
Best thing – til Christmas it’s freeware

Regards
Andreas

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/sequenceLiner

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[John Hepworth]

Hi Andreas et al

Once the clips are lined up, can you match frame back to a master clip so as to put in markers etc?

We’ve been working with a workflow with CatDV that syncs multiple cameras by making multiclips, but sometimes the link seems to break so that match framing no longer works?

John Hepworth

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hi, John.

I find this to be flaky in FCP7. Sometimes they show up as match framable, sometimes they lose the master clip connection. I don’t know what causes this, hopefully Andreas can chime in. If you drag the clips from the timeline to a new bin, that should create a master/affiliate relationship.

[Andreas Kiel]

Unfortunately I’m in hospital next weeks and can’t help that much. But Jeremy’s suggestion seems to be okay.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Jeremy Garchow]

Stay well, Andreas and feel better!

Jeremy