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MetaFuze
Hi there,
I need to edit in AVID a bunch of JPEG image sequences. The thing is that I need those MXF files to keep the original Timecode.
When I import the JPEG sequences into AVID it always reset the timecode to zero.
Now, I’m trying to create these MXF files with MetaFuze, the AVID software, but no success.
Is there any way to create MXF files with the correct timecode extrated from the JPEG (or TIFF or whatever) filenames faming info?
Thank you very much in advance!
Juan Galva | Editor and Junior Colorist
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4 Replies
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JPEG and TIFF have no capacity to contain timecode, so where is that particular piece of metadata coming from?
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Are you putting timecode as part of the filename?
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Thanks for reply.
I’ve got frame info as part of the filename: project_shot_0000023.dpx (for example, in case of a dpx file, which is the target of this test).
the thing is that the dpx files come from compositing which does not write timecode into the dpx header. so we have to calculate the timecode from the frame numbers. e.g. with a frame rate of 25 the frame number 30 would be tc 00:00:01:05.I was wondering if there’s any way to achieve that.
thanks!
Juan Galva | Editor and Junior Colorist
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What I do in these scenarios is not work with absolute frame to timecode and then back again. I just put the DPX filename and frame count in the DPX column within Media Composer and just keep working with the same naming scheme as the file as absolute frames. Lists, change lists, and all that good stuff cab be exported out as TAB or XML to be parsed by downstream workflows.
That being said, there is no way within Media Composer to convert absolute frames to timecode and vice versa.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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