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Synching a timecode to the original clip(s)’s speed
Here is what I’m working with and what I want to do:
– I have a 15 minute recording split into 8 consecutive clips which I want to play back-to-back with a timer in the top-right corner counting upwards, i.e. showing real-time.
– I want to speed up and slow down various different parts but I want to keep the timecode synched to the original speed of the clips. E.g. if I were to speed up a particular section to 2x, the time would count upwards at 2x.I’m new to video editing in general and I’ve slowly figured out one or two possible solutions, but I have some problems with them:
– The timecode effect works on each clip individually (i.e. it will start at 0 on every clip), even if I add the timecode video effect to the entire track.
– To get around this, I make a video track above this one and create a 15-minute transparent background clip, and then add the timecode to it. Then I mirror any speed/velocity changes of the track with the recorded clips to my timecode track
– However because this track still has a video effect on it (and isn’t rendered/processed or whatever the correct term is :p), if I split it into two or more tracks each track resets the timecode to 0.So that leaves this solution:
– I could render my timecode track (the 15-minute transparent block), and then import this as a normal clip which I can manipulate. However, when I render this uncompressed it is a large file despite the only data being the timecode counter. I don’t currently have the extra filespace to render this (it takes 20+ gigs) and it seems excessive for something so simple.
Is there another way I can render/process it into the type of clip I split and speed up within vegas (with the timecode unaffected in the way I described above) ?
Is there a *simple* way that I can merge my original 8 clips, add a timecode which runs sequentially across the clips – then render/edit this into a new single clip ?
Is there a much much simpler solution involving the timecode which I’m missing !!? 😀
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If you don’t need it to show the frame count, in other words just an HH:MM:SS format for the purposes of your production, I would shoot a close-up video of an ordinary kitchen timer masked against a green background, use the pan/crop tool and key it over your other video. If you can find something that’s backlit with a blue light, that’s even better. You could invert the video (make it negative) if that works.
If you DO need a HH:MM:SS:FF format AND your camera creates timecode on screen, cap the lens, hit record and capture the “s” or composite video output to your computer (or use FireWire out if your camera/computer are so inclined) and do the same thing in post.
Hope that gives you some ideas
Bob Belongie
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