TimeCode Burnin

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s not available from FCP (that I know of), but you can export a reference quicktime, and then use the Kona TV app to layoff a window burn if need be.

Jeremy

[Gary Adcock]

[David Battistella] “Is anyone having any success using the new TC burnin feature of the K-2 Driver? I wish there was a way to activate this from an FCP timeline. “

sorry david
you need to use the Kona TV app for this, but it will allow for Ref movies and RGB+Alpha QT files to have the burn in

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[David Battistella]

Too Bad FCP never implemented Timecode support from the timeline. It would have been nice to see this kind of feature.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Ron Thompson]

Like I’ve said in past posts, FCP is capable of this, but Apple needs to “unlock” it. Anyone who uses a Mackie control surface via Midi from FCP, enjoys a constant flow of timecode on the Mackie display!!! So this is not impossible if Apple WANTS it to happen.
I’m with you…I want to hit record on my deck and have it lock to FCP’s timeline! (Assemble mode of course). The last system I could do this with was the DPS Velocity.

Ron

[David Battistella]

This is a much needed feature in FCP. Let’s all do an Apple feedback on this.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Tony]

David,

I can easily do this within FCP by doing the following.

Export your current sequence as a reference movie (no need to make it self contained) then reimport it and paste it into another sequence. I keep the original sequence and the reference movie within the same project to avoid confusion.

Add the timecode filter to the entire clip (which is the newly imported reference movie) and magically via RT extreme you will be able to get an instant timecode window burn which you can reposition anywhere on the screen and change the color.

The trick is not to add a drop shadow to the window burn numbers to maximize RT extreme.

Tony Salgado

[Ron Thompson]

I think what most of us want is a “throw-back” to the linear days of A-B roll editing where your timecode was always on-screen….in addition to a TC signal being pumped to external equipment. Like I said, I get this on my Mackie control surface via MIDI, with big bright red numbers, but we need Apple to give us other options. And the AJA solutions doesn’t work for me right now.

FCP5.5/6 is around the corner…can’t hurt to start making noise about this.

FYI, an easier way to do TC burn for clients is to NEST your sequence (which makes another sequence), rename it (“project TC burn”) and apply the TC generator to that!! You maintain RT and avoid the export step.

Ron