I want Timecode in the picture.

[Steven L. gotz]

https://dve.teletex.ru/en/dvrecdate.shtml

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Ken Adolph]

Premiere will not do this. Also, there are no plugins that i have found that work easily. Hopefully this will be included in Ver.2 like in FCP
The two ways that I do it are as follows.
1-I print the show to betacam with the TC display turned on the beta machine while recording the output to a vhs tape at the same time.
2-I captured a 60 minute clip from betacam with the TC display turned on. Then I place this on the time line and crop the picture so that only the TC shows up over my show. Then playback the show to VHS. I keep this 60min TC clip on my harddrive for future use..
Hope this helps.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Daniel Martinez]

Allright. Thank you.

I’ll render out a Timecode from after fx, then.

Daniel

[Steven L. gotz]

I don’t know if Ken has tried the plugin I suggested, but if you have AE, it certainly is the easiest way to superimpose some timecode.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[David J]

DVDATE, as Steven suggests, is the new and very welcome answer to this problem.

If you are editing in Premiere, then getting overlay timecode from AE is much less convenient than using DVDATE as a Premiere effect.

[Daniel Martinez]

I had to do the TC superimposing today so I ended up using AE, but thank you anyway. Another problem with using after FX is, that it as such doesn’t suport 24bit audio. Damn. I had to render out the TC and either export the audio to use with AE or import the TC footage in premiere. What a logistic day this has been.

Daniel

[Craig Howard]

I concur with David and Steven.

Use DVDate plug in

DVDate is by far the best solution ( and its cheap and versatile and simple)

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Ron Shook]

Ken,

[ken adolph] “Premiere will not do this. Also, there are no plugins that i have found that work easily. Hopefully this will be included in Ver.2 like in FCP”

I don’t know about FCP (still trying to get a handle on that.) But…, the first major problem is how the PPro database handles TC, i.e., if you have a mixture of DF and NDF, it changes the TC of the NDF to DF or vice versa, I think, depending on the the TC of your timelines. This is nuts because it renders all pre-logging for a portion of the tapes on your project inaccurate. There’s a lot to be done in version 2 to justify the Pro in PPro, and we gotta hope it gets done.

Although it is just as broken if not more so in this TC mixing respect as PPro, the playing catch-up Edius allows you to superimpose timeline TC, source clip TC, and a 3rd user defined field from the database (could be reel#, clip name, whatever) on the output, any or all. This is what PPro needs to help editors stay in accurate communication with their clients.

Ron Shook

[Ken Adolph]

Unless I am doing something terribly wrong DV Date does not do what is needed! Yes, it will give me the TC of the clip it is applied to or the timeline TC of the clip. But it does not give me the TC of the complete timeline from beginning to end. The TC of the clip is of no use as we already know this from the original footage log. In order to work with the producer or client we need to send a copy of the show with the timeline TC so they can comment on the show. There is no way that applying this plugin to every clip on the timeline will work when you could be working with 300 to 500 clips in a documentary or feature film.
I’m still looking for a solution and hoping that Adobe fixes this important problem in Ver2.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[David J]

DVdate does indeed include the option to show timeline timecode. It’s the first option on the list on the opening screen. At the bottom of that list is a window where you can enter a timeline offset if you need one. What more might you need?