[Jeffrey Irvine]

Thank you for the advice, everyone. Everything you say makes perfect sense.

To clarify, I definitely do not hear the timecode on either of the audio tracks. If it is encoded somehow, it would be in the metadata as Ty and Bouke say.

Unfortunately, I’ve tried a couple of tag readers and Bouke’s Transcriber software, and nothing has been able to detect timecode. It’s certainly possible that it simply was not encoded after all, but I am still exploring other options.

I suppose once the footage is loaded, we could export a QT from Avid with the timecode embedded and use that for transcription (assuming Avid can still export QTs with embedded timecode — I would hope to avoid the render time of using BITC). It would be ideal to have it transcribed sooner, however. I’ll let you know if I have any luck.

Thanks!