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Keeping DPX Timecode
Correct me if I am doing something wrong here. I have folders with DPX files that I want to run through Framelink and make QTs out of. I am choosing to create a new movie, which makes a qt icon where I designate it and then disk image on the desktop. But thus far I have not designated what DPX files I want to use and when I click on the disk image it is empty. So…I drag the DPX files that I want to turn into a quicktime into the disk image and voila, I have a qt of those frames and a (mountable/unmountable)disk image on my desk top. Here comes the problem part. If I bring the raw DPX files into the Flame there seems to be Timecode embedded in the metadata; what does this timecode not get added to the quicktimes that I make with framelink? Is there anyway to embed the timecode? The second problem is that when I drop the DPX files into the disk image on the desk top it is fine, but not a permanent thing that I can move onto my work drive or anything. If I eject the disk image nothing happens to the quicktime…which is cool, but then say I did want to go back to the individual frames in DPX format, if I drop the QT that I created into framelink it makes a brand new disk image with all the frames in it…but they all start at 0000 even if the frames that I made the qt from did not. How can I keep the original disk image with the correct file names in a more permanent way?
I hope my wording isn’t too confusing.
Thanks,
Eli
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3 Replies
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Hi Eli,
We currently don’t support timecodes with FrameLink which is why the timecode from the DPXes do not tranfer over to the Quicktime
movie.When reopen the Quicktime movie that was previous created from a bunch of DPXes, you’re essentially creating a new FrameLink volume which is why the DPXes start from 0000. There is no link between the Quicktime movie and your original DPXes once you’ve ejected the volume. There no way to keep the names of the DPXes permanently.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
Hi Eli,
Check out Silverstack from Pomfort : http://www.pomfort.com
It will extract the DPX timecode and reelname info from the header and embedd it into the Quicktime clip, plus you can do a whole lot more in the software. It’ll do exactly what you want.
-chrispy
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Bummer about the BMD Framelink (though glad to find out that it wasn’t just me doing it wrong). Thanks for the info about Silverstack Chrispy! Next project I will surely be using it.
Best,
Eli
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