Time Code on Screen

[Michael Phillips]

Look in the Illusion category of effects and drop the “timecode” on the top track and set the parameters accordingly. It is a render.

Michael

anything 24fps

[Jon Zanone]

There’s also a supposed ‘real-time’ plug-in out there on the forum whose name we don’t speak. I have’nt tried it, but it was supposedly developed by a Euro Avid developer. I think I have a copy at work. BTW, it was free if you registered, so no harm in distribution – it I still have it.

Jon

“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”

[John Mclane]

Thank you guys for the really quick answer ! I appriciate that ! The thing is that my lame english didn’t manage to explain my problem properly the first time. With the time code effect what I get is a kind of Absolute Time Code which goes from 00:00:00:00 to 01:02:03:00 for example. What I need is an effect that could show on screen the timecode of my source so that the sound guy could get the tape and digitiz what he needs. I don’t know if i’m really clear ?

Thanks anyway for the great help,

Nico

[Michael Phillips]

I don’t know of any available plug-in that burns in the source unless it was done at time of telecine, transfer, or dub. The best you can give your sound person is the record side EDL with an EDL to reflect back to the sources for that point in time.

Michael

anything 24fps

[John Mclane]

EDL sounds good to me ,I think I’ll go for it.

Thanks for your precious help,

Nico

[Alec Gitelman]

i once had the same issue. i was able to put the necessary clips into timelines, sync up the timecodes to the timeline tc, export the clips with the timecode and then put them back into a sequence for someone to look at. it’s a convoluted process and if you have done a large editing job it probably won’t work for you, but if it’s a few long clips then it may be a solution.

[John Mclane]

EXcelent one ! I dodn’t think about this solution ! My project is about 20 minutes long and has a large amount of cut but i’ll definitely keep your technic in mind for a shorter work ! Thanks for sharing this good tip !

Nico

[Donosnh]

If you have a “super” output on your playback deck (usually video output #3),
you can complete your project then delete your media and batch capture from your deck’s “super” ouput with “super” turned on.

This will give you a copy of your project with source time code burn visible.

[Ddennick]

Here’s something I did, which takes a bit of prep, but will save you in the long run.

I am using Media Composer 2.6.4 with a Mojo SDI on Mac.

I was working on an 44 minute show and didn’t want throw an effect on a track and render the whole sequence. I rendered a QT movie with Alpha from AfterEffects with a timecode and imported this movie into the AVID. The import takes a couple of hours, but now you have a timecode track that doesn’t need to be rendered. One caveat, when you are about to output, deselect the track with timecode and do an Expert Render In to Out.