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Time Code breaks
Hello:
I am trying to capture footage of a football game shot in SD. The camera is stopped and started after each play. I had thought that this would break the time code after each play. i have viewed the footage with time code displayed and this does not seem to be the case. I have set the User Preference to make new clip on time code during capture but there are no separate clips created…just one big clip. How can I make it so that FCP creates a new clip for each time my camera is paused and restarted? Is this some special setting on the camera? or some setting rerquired in FCP…or perhaps both??? Please help. My previous editing platformed allowed for “auto splitting” after capture. -
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Your cameraperson was shooting with “record run” timecode. This is a pretty standard default way of shooting. If you want FCP to create a new clip upon every camera start and stop, you can use “Time of Day” time code. This will sync your timecode generator to “actual time”. Whenever the camera starts and stops, so does the time code. Some people HATE this and would never suggest using it. Others have built a complete workflow around it. Only you can decide.
To answer your original question, YOU CAN”T break up the one long clip since the timecode is continuos.
Good luck.
mark
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Mark:
Thanks for the prompt reply. Just to clarify, this would be a camera setting (time of day time code?).Thanks again
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You mentioned you shot SD — if you happened to shoot this on DV, you can use FCP’s DV Start/Stop Detect feature.
If not, software like Scene Detector can analyze your video clip and notch it at the cuts.
Walter Soyka
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Yes, a camera setting.
Check out Walter’s suggestions as well. They can be a real lifesaver.
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