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read time of day on FCP?
hello. surely someone has figured out how to get the Meta data
from the P2 card displayed in FCP. The record run tc shows up
no problem, but there is other information, time of day specifically, that exists but can’t be seen.Double system sound back up recordings with time of day could be synced no problem with time of day timecode.
Doing a multiple day job and prefer record run tc, but accessing
the existing meta data time of day would be very helpful.Is there a plugin or ??
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I think if you’re going to have to record in free run instead of record run. I don’t think that you can do both at the same time.
If you used a timecode slate, then you could change the Aux timecode to match, but that would be a pain.
If you’re recording to P2 and not to tape, I’d just use free run time of day to sync the sound.
-Russ
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I think it records time of day in meta data, because I can see
it with that new mxf reader P2CMS. So I know it’s there, but just can’t get it displayed. -
Raylight will give you the most metadata that you’re going to get in the FCP workflow, until FCP decides to offer proper MXF support.
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Thanks Barry. I’ll check out Raylight.
Is this forum the best place to make noise, i.e., request mxf support, about adding more usefulness into FCP? Are you or other people here being listened to by Apple?
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Probably the best place to make noise about FCP is to use the “send feedback” (or whatever it’s called) dialog box within FCP. You can send your requests directly to Apple.
If Apple listened to me, we’d have had native MXF support with full timeline integration of the metadata 18 months ago. I’ve been clamoring about that issue forever.
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Hi,
Barry is correct about feeding the info back to Apple, as they really will only do something if their customers complain directly. I actually had one of their reps show me that because you can export the XML out of the time line and thus look at the metadata as if it were a page of computer programming that this was exactly what I was asking for. And he was dead serious. He din’t have much to say about the fact that you didn’t have access to the only line of metadata that was able to increment the User Clip Name. I mean it isn’t even imported.
I guess I wasn’t very convincing that their customers would like something more than this. So please feed back directly to Apple that you want this metadata.
I also wanted to mention to you that by putting your Time of Day into the UserBits, that does annihilate the Frame Rate Data, which may not be important on this shoot, but may be on the next where you want to shoot and marry up with Varicam footage. Or you want to shoot with the FS100 and have it do VFR. That user bit setting has to be on Frame Rate. Don’t forget to put it back to the default.
All the best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems
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