siurce timecode not displaying on 5dii footage

[Matt Galuszewski]

I have never had timecode in a 7D file, I don’t believe it records timecode.

What version of FCP were you using? Is it possible that timecode was being added during a rewrap or transcode operation?

[Shane Ross]

Timecode is in the accompanying THM file…FCP looks at that metadata and marries it to the H.264 file it converts and puts it in the resulting ProRes file.

Premiere does not look at that THM file.

Shane
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[Elliot Choueka]

OK, thanks. So does that mean that I’ll never be able to bring in true TC with Canon DSLRs? Does this include the C300? Also, do you know if this is the case for other cameras? Thanks for your help.

[Tero Ahlfors]

The DSLRs do not record timecode to the files. Dunno about the 1DX or other high end ones. I’ve heard there are some programs that make TOD timecode for the file from the metadata but I’ve never used them.

[Billy Sheahan]

Hello Elliot,

I just came to this thread looking for a similar answer. I thought (or hoped) perhaps Premiere CC might have addressed this.

The previous answers are correct that Premiere has historically not used the .thm files to pull the camera time of day “timecode” into the file to create a sort of pseudo timecode as FCP used to when importing/transcoding DSLR files.

My workaround in Premiere for the past few years has been to use a third party program called qtChange prior to importing into Premiere to add the time of day camera timecode from the thm file to the mov file. You can also use qtChange to add a reel name to the mov file which can come in handy when sending edits for color grading as the reel name is sometimes very useful in color grading software.

Once qtChange has added the “timecode” to the mov file, you can import it into Premiere and now Premiere will see the timecode as it’s now part of the mov file and the fact that Premiere doesn’t read the thm is no longer an issue.

It’s an extra step before importing, but so far, it’s the only easy way I’ve found to make sure my DSLR files have a more useful timecode than the 00:00:00:00 since there technically is no timecode in the original mov file.

I hope this helps. And it would be nice if future versions of Premiere would be intelligent enough to notice the thm file and pull the time of day timecode from the thm file.

Billy

[Eddie Adams]

I think you can use the Canon EOS Plugin under FCP7 to “Log and Transfer” the footage off the cards into ProRes files, then import the resulting ProRes files into Adobe Premiere.