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VX2100 & premiere pro
hello all. I am using a vx2100 to import into premiere via firewire. Sometimes while capturing I get a “Unable to detect timecode error” The tapes I am using are brand new, right out of the box. It happened twice this past weekend while capturing. Once it happen durng a scene change, where the camera was probably turned off and turned back on again. The other time was one continuous scene. The only thing that happened was a mic was plugged into the camera, but the camera was never stopped. Even if I turn device control off I still get this message. one thing I noticed is that pro doesnt have a setting for the vx2100 only the vx2000. Should this matter. Thanks for any help.
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Are you striping your tapes before you shoot?
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No. Do I have to? I shoot for my “pay the bills” job as well, and we never stripe tapes. Grab and run.
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Its not necessary to stripe DV tapes before use, DV doesn’t use old time code except as a starting point for a new scene, if a cam is turned off when turning back on always check the time code display before starting a new scene if its zeroed out just back the tape up a hair till you see time code from a previous scene, if you strip a DV tape you could have broken time code on every scene because DV overwrites anything on the tape except for the last time code it references and the new tracks maynot align with the old stripped code so if you stripe you waste time and have extra wear & tear on the equip.
When plugging in the mic you might have glitched the recording process somehow, always set your cam up before the shot, minimize futzing with the cam while shooting.Also the the device control for a VX2100 is basically the same as a VX2k
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