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messed up time code – How to capture?
I just got a Mini DV tape where the tape was not primed and the timecode goes back to 00:00 several times. I tried to capture by setting In & out points according to the tape timecodes, but it doesn’t work. Premiere freezes up. I was told by the owner of the tape which timecodes to capture but they are going up & down. Any way to capture this video in a way that I can still relate to the timecodes on the tape?
Thx,
Joe
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5 Replies
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ScLive of http://www.scenalyzer.com does not rely on the timecode written on the tape or/and on the time-stamps written at the beginning of every take.
I am afraid that nothing much you can do with your present tape other than re-capture with ScLive since the first timecodes written on a tape cannot be erased.
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Capture with Premiere Pro using scene detect.
Or capture the whole tape.
I doubt the timecodes on the original tape will ever be of much future use but maybe you wont or dont really need them.
(You could out put the timeline from PP to a new tape and get new TC if it is important to you)
Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I’ll give it a try.Joe
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[Paul Thurston] “You may ask about generation loss, but the reality is that the generation loss will have to be weighed against the probable alternative which is to not use the tape at all.”
Capture in DV being a mere copy to HD of the digital data on the tape, there is no generation loss. Likewise, exporting the same unmodified A/V material to tape is again a copy of a bunch 1 and 0 without any loss.
You have generation loss only when your A/V clips are modified by decompression and recompresaiion when applying Transitions, Effects and/or Field changes and, of course, only the clip sections thus modified do, after a few compresion decompresion cycles, start showing generation loss.
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