Luan Van le
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I have a similar problem right now.
I am working as the visual effects & post artist on a short film for our school, the University of Texas at Arlington. We shot the film on Sony HDV and they are doing the edits-only cut at school using Final Cut. I’m on a PC using PP 1.5.1 and Cineform Aspect HD 4 at home. The school doesn’t have the software for the effects work that I’ll be doing plus I’ll be creating a 24p graded master with Magic Bullet in After Effects, which is why I’m working from home.
Anyway, I captured the clips that needed effects (23 total) so that I could work on them in After Effects and PFTrack. So I took the EDL printout that was given to me that was exported from Final Cut and captured the clips that I needed from a total of four tapes using the Media Start/Media End information on the EDL. My thought was that I would export out of PP the edited In/Out points from the EDL but would have the whole clip available just in case. Seems like that made more hassle than anything else!
After capturing the clips, for instance, 05:21:01;17 – 05:21:44;13 on Tape 04 I needed to be able to find the edited In/Out points, which were 05:21:28;09 – 05:21:36;04. Unfortunately, what I found after capturing the clips was that PP did not give me the timecode of the clip based on the original timecode from the tape. It shows the Media Start as being 00:00:00;00 and Media End as 00:00:43;29. So I am unable to determine, quickly, where my In/Out points should be according to the EDL. What a pain! Now I’m going to have to re-capture everything, using specifically the EDL In/Out timecodes rather than the Media Start/End timecodes.
Does anyone know if PP has the tape timecode info anywhere? I didn’t log any timecode when I did the capture. I only entered timecode, captured, let Aspect HD transcode, and then I moved on to the next clip. If anyone has a clue, let me know. Thanks!
Luan
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Just in case you’re still looking. There’s freeware called Timecode Frame Generator 2.0. It’s a standalone program that will create a counter, add dates, and you can adjust almost any parameter. The link is https://www.2writers.com/download.htm
Luan