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Vegas (7d) stops showing timecode?
I was capturing from a camera (Sony). I used the advanced capture and used the mark in and out points on the time code to do a batch capture. Making the list went fine. I then activated the batch capture (27 scenes) and it captured all but the last two when I got an error message that it could not find the time code. I noticed that no time code was showing up on the Vegas display. I rewound the tape and startetd playing from a different area and still no time code. I closed Vegas and opened a new capture session and still no time code. The time code does display on the camera tilt out monitor so the camera is reading it. All of a sudden Vegas is not seeing it.
Any ideas?
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6 Replies
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Is the timecode broken on the tape? i.e. did you remove the tape from the camera at some point, and put it back in and continue recording? If the time code gets re-set at some point, it can throw the batch capture off.
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No, the taping was done at one time consequtively. The tape was never removed. The strange thing is when I go back to the area where time code was previously read, it will not read it now. Yet it shows on the camera displayy?
Thanks for the try.
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Are you talking “timecode”? Or are you talking “Date/Time”?
Edward Troxel
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That’s an odd one… try a different firewire cable perhaps, failing that see if you can manually record the clip without using advanced capture. Not sure why it won’t read in the software…
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Timecode
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An update on this problem. Getting back to the project the next day I found that Vegas would now see the time code but would not read it smoothly. That is- usually the time code just runs linearly as the video plays and you can watch the time go by. Now it would run for a while and then stop and then catch up and run for a while and then stop. The video did record smoothly though. It seems strange that rthis whole problem just started in the middle of a project. Maybe there is a problem with the video heads not cleanly picking up the control track information? Think I will try to use my PD150 as an input and see how it reads.
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