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missing timecode :(
My work asked me to reconnect some offline media from 3 mini dv tapes. All the clips associated with the first tape loaded back fine using batch capture, but the other tapes appear to have no timecode. Even when i go to log and capture there it wont play any of the footage on the tapes. I thought maybe recording a second or two of nothing via the deck would lay down some timecode, which it did, but i think it off set whatever the original timecode was. One of the clips its ment to batch capture is around the 25 minute mark in the timecode, but my timecode dosent reach that far. Any idea what i can do to get the original timecode back on there so i can capture the clips as they were ment to be ?
thanks so much,
-j.isaac -
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I think the TC you attempted to record didn’t hurt anything… nor did it fix it. Might try a different deck or camera, sometimes poorly recorded timecode can’t be read by other than the machine that recorded it, like the camera (XL’s come to mind here). but without the original TC being read, you’ll have to recapture the footage and re edit it in the sequences… ugh…
Might try a FW dub tape to tape dubbing to a machine like a DSR-11 which can re record external timecode via FireWire. It’s lossless and might work. Record to DVCAM tape as it’s TC record is a lot hotter and more reliable. TC tracks are burned in on each frame actually, so the recording you did at the head of the tape only erased that portion…
Jerry
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HI J
That doesn’t sound great
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