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  • Timecode Errors

    Posted by Simon Owen on April 7, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Hi everyone,
    I have recently taken the plunge with Final Cut Pro 6 and after a watching a tutorial dvd from Larry Jordan I’m quietly confident of being able to use the programme competently.
    The one problem I am having that is driving me nuts is that everytime I try to capture footage, either individual clips or with batch capture, I get the following message:
    Batch Capture: TImecode Error: Unable to locate the specified timecode. You may have specified a timecode with insufficient room for a pre/post roll operation.
    I’m not sure what this means so any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

    Susan Mcdermott replied 16 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Gary Adcock

    April 7, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    [Dave LaRonde] “It probably means that when shooting, you had your time code generator set to free run rather than record run. “

    it could also mean that the time was never set in the camera.

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  • Susan Mcdermott

    July 27, 2010 at 3:26 am

    I am a non professional learning FCP5 as I go. I came across the same time code error and made an easy fix. After setting the in and out points,”logging the clip” I went to the browser highlighted the pre captured clips and right clicked the mouse clicking on batch capture from that popup window. A new window popped up with Capture: “all selected items”. Then under that was Options: Use logged clip setting- was checked and add handles 00:00:00;00- was unchecked. So I checked it. The error disappeared.

    My elementary novice goof and fix.

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