[Nick Rivers]

Somehow I don’t think this is a timecode issue, at least as I understand it. I shoot a lot of video, and while I didn’t shoot this material the operator knew what he was doing in terms of avoiding ‘breaks’. I wonder though would it help if the tapes were striped with continuous timecode beforehand?
I have found an article that seems to address this situation:

https://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/how-to-handle-jvc-hdv-720p-scene-breaks-in-final-cut-pro

thanks -Matt

[Nick Rivers]

I haven’t had any trouble with Final Cut and the miniDV tapes, not yet at least so thanks for the heads up. For now I’m just going to run the analog out of the JVC deck into a canopus converter and capture the footage as regular DV footage, that will allow me to avoid the breaks or black periods between shots, but then my timecode will be off, so much for an offline edit from the producer.

thanks, – Matt