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Timecode transposition problem
I need to slide my time-code on 3 hour-long clips by 30 seconds each.
Captured SD and HD versions of the same footage. (3 captures of all of each of three tapes for each version.) Offlining with scaled SD on an HD timeline, will substitute with HD (unscaled) for the final render. Time codes must match between them.
The problem: though my capture inpoint was carefully set to the same point (30 seconds in) for both captures, the down-resed-in-the-camera process (un)helpfully reset the zero point on its timecode to that point, whereas the HD capture reproduced the 30 second mark as intended. So the timecode is off by exactly 30 seconds between the two versions.
Any suggestion on how to fix this? (Without recapturing, I hope.)
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Seems simplest to render an SD intermediate of the master SD footage from the timeline, starting 30 seconds in, and then do my off-line edit with this version – the time code of which will match the HDV versions. I should have thought of that.
Postings searches seem to favour the Quicktime png codec where losslessness is important, so that’s what I’m doing. I hope that applies on the PC side. It’s taking 12 hours to render an hour’s worth, and doubles the file size from the master SD files, (and it may be problematic to edit with CS4 on my temporarily under-specified setup (P4 at 3Ghz)?)
But this is what I’m testing in the absence of any other ideas; for this sort of thing I’ve read of concerns about other free codecs. (Don’t want to buy a codec until I know what I’ll need – or not – for my soon-to-be-chosen new system will be.)
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