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Viewing Timeocde During Edit to Tape
I would like to know if there is any way of viewing the deck timecode during an edit to tape.
I do a lot of playouts to Digis / HDCams which are in a machine room and would ideally like to have some idea of what they’re doing during the edit to tape process.Any help would be appreciated.
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Digital Heaven has a plug-in called Big Time, lets you float a time code window anywhere, any size. I don’t know if it works during the play out to tape but if it does, this may be the thing for you.
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Thanks for that. Just checked it out but apparently ‘due to Final Cut Pro limitations’ it only displays timecode from the Viewer or Canvas and not when capturing clips, printing to video or editing to tape.
Perhaps thats my answer right there. -
All my edit suites have a secondary monitor that can have the decks timecode monitoring ‘out’ displayed on it. These monitors are little 7″ LCD’s that you get for car DVD players and I get 2 for about $150 aussie dollars so it is a cheap solution.
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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I have return lines to all suites from the machine room patch bays, connected to the analog “B” monitor input. I patch the character out of whatever machine I’m laying out to, to the return line and monitor that. especially for insert edits. The only time this doesn’t work is going to 23.98 HDCam which of course won’t deliver a composite signal at that frequency rate. Have to use the “b” HDSDI input on the mon for that
Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN
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