Timecode on channel 2

[Aaron Neitz]

What kind of DV deck do you have? Does it have Timecode IN/OUT connectors on the back? Either XLR/BNC/RCA. If it does, lay your program to DV tape, and then patch the Timecode Out from the DV deck into the Right audio channel of the VHS. Bascially you’ll hear this high speed whirring sound – which is audible timecode. That’s what they’re looking for.

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[bill hayley] “Anyone know what this means and how to accomplish this?
Can I do this straight from final cut via firewire to my DV/VHS deck?”

Its a very ANTIQUE way of working (some post houses are slow to change).

No, you can’t do this “inside” FCP.

You’d need to have a recording deck with a TC “OUTPUT”.

You would feed the deck with FCP as the soruce (it can’t be the FW input, as you would need to be using the analog inputs for the rest of this “scheme” to work).

So you’d need to feed FCP from a “video card or box”
The recording deck (while it was recording the video and audio (Ch.1) and getting the TC via the breakout box) would send the “audio of that TC” signal (analog TC is actually an audio frequency) out of its “TC out” jack, which you would loop into the Audio 2 input on the same deck.

Sounds complicated?
Yep. That’s why I said it was an “antique” way to work.