Making a exact copy of a tape.

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You did not say WHAT FORMAT of tape.

Regardless, you must have a deck that accepts EXTERNAL timecode for the tape copy to have the same TC as the original.

You then must switch the deck to EXTERNAL TC for it to know to record it.

If you don’t own a deck with this feature, you may need to take the tape to a production house that DOES.

[Jeffrey Levenstone]

it Is DV. The only option I have is to use my xl1s as deck.

[Dean Sensui]

If it’s a DVCam tape there’s a “dup” feature that will make an exact copy from one DVCam deck to another. Keep in mind that both DVCam decks have to have this feature and that the source tape has to be in the DVCam format.

Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com

[Jeffrey Levenstone]

No it is just dv. I have a xl1s and a xl2.

[Rocco Rocco]

Hi Jeffrey,

Perhaps the best thing to do would be to call a duplication facility for a quote and turnaround time. Make sure hey know to produce an exact clone of the master tape. They’ll do a great job and you won;t have to worry about your client etc. It’s only DV, it won’t be that expensive.

Good luck.

[Jeffrey Levenstone]

Thanks everyone for you reactions the suggestion so far. But does this mean that there is noway to do this with final cut pro and my xl1s or xl2

Jeffrey Levenstone

[Todd Beabout]

Yes. Sorry.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Dean Sensui]

The only other solution is to capture all your material onto a Firewire drive and hand that over to the production house. This assumes that everyone’s working on the same platform and same software.

Once the tapes are captured, then you’ll have a copy of a captured material and so will the production house. You can then email one another the much smaller edited program files (with the sequences) and collaborate remotely.

We do this for our own show and save a heck of a lot of driving and gas.

Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com

[Nick Meyers]

if there are no TC breaks on the tape:

capture entire tape into one file,

open in SIMPLE VIDEO OUT

https://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SimpleVideoOut/SimpleVideoOut.html

play back to camera with TC set to read EXTERNAL (can you do that with XL1?)

this app plays video, audio AND TC down the firewire!

cheers,
nick

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[NIckM] “play back to camera with TC set to read EXTERNAL (can you do that with XL1?)”

Nope.
Nor can you do that with virtually any camcorder.

That’s why I gave the first answer about needing a deck with “external TC” setting.

There is no need to dub the tape into FCP and then use “SimpleVideoOut” (which IS a great little app) because:

Its NOT that there is no timecode going OUT directly from the TAPE playback (there IS, that’s how FCP receives it) its that camcorders don’t “look for it” and instead always just record “fresh” internal TC when they record.

There may be a few high-end camcorders that have an “external TC” setting, but not many. That’s the province of a deck.