Timecode navigation using source timecode

[Tom Wolsky]

That functionality is not in FCP. The application is not designed to work the way you work unfortunately.

All the best,

Tom

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[Joe Paolo]

You can turn on timecode overlays in the source window. Don’t think you can keystroke to thre source times but you can see them if that helps.

joe
editmojo.com

[Bob Flood]

Darryl,
As Tom had so succinctly put it, It aint gonna happen with FCP

However

If you tell us what your goal is, we can tell you the best way to achieve it using FCP.

something like “I need to be able to cue my source clips from TC notes in a transcript.” versus “i want to do something an Avid does”

so waddya wanna do? we be happy to help!

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Darryl David]

Thank you for your reply. Yes I would like to cue from tanscripts with timecode
notes. If there is another way other than
to matchframe that would be great. I guess the other way to do then is to put
All related debriefs into a folder instead
of putting them into a sequence. Then just open the appropriate clip and punch in the timecode from there. It’s a different workflow but again different program structure. Final cut is folder driven avid is bin and sequence structured.

dedit
freelance editor
toronto

[Andy Mees]

Daryl

Assuming there is no duplication of source timecode then as a reasonably simple workaround you could arrange the source clips in selects sequences in such a way that the source timecodes exactly match up with selects sequence’s timecode … in that way you could navigate your selects reel in the manner you’re looking for.

You can do this pretty easily by creating and using Multiclip Sequences as your selects sources (bulk select the sources clips and then choose Modify menu > Make Multiclip Sequence.. the resulting sequence is the selects sequence and should contain all the source clips laid out as described above. I’ve never tried this with wildly disparate timecodes and there may be a limit that I’m not aware of, but in theory it should work fine.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Darryl David]

Good idea Andy. I will try it out. My best bet might be to just load the clip i need into the viewer and go from there.

Thanks all.

dedit
freelance editor
toronto

[Bob Flood]

Darryl

I do this all the time. The client or writer goes through transcripts in Word and builds a script from the transcript, using the time code number from the question, or just after.

make a bin (what you call a folder) of all your interviews/testimonials.

load into the source viewer, and cue up each one through the timecode. THEN play the clips from their and mark in and out on the actual statement you need.

at this point you can cut it into a sequence, OR make a subclip which will show up back in the bin. If you are looking for multiple statements from a single take, you cna use markers as well (which you can later turn into subclips, if you desire.

just another way to skin the proverbial cat (cuz you know PETA would’nt let us skin a real cat 🙂 )

hope this helps

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.