[Scott Heitman]

Bouke, by digital timecode output I meant LTC. We’re not using MIDI timecode.

You said, “capture the common house timecode in FCP.
This is an audio signal.
If you put it on the timeline, and have ProTools listen to that, it should slave.”

That might be the answer to my whole problem. I was not aware that you could capture the timecode as an audio track. But if I can do that and then playback the video while sending audio to Protools timecode input then maybe it will slave to it.
Otherwise I’ll look into the LTCgenerator from Video Tool Shed.

Thank you both Jeremy and Bouke. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

[Scott Heitman]

Yeah, Jeremy. You’ve got the situation correct. Sorry I didn’t do a good job explaining everything. Basically we’re a music recording studio but with video capabilities to make music videos or stream to the web. We’re capturing the audio with Protools and all our video is going live into Final Cut. We want to be able to play back the high quality ProRes 422 video while locked to the audio in Protools so the musicians can have all the controls offered by Protools while watching the uncompressed video.
We’ve looked into Virtual VTR but have heard mixed reviews about its reliability. It might be our only option though.
We’ve also tried exporting the Final Cut video and load the video into Protools but the image quality was not very good. What is the best file format we can export from Final Cut that would look good in Protools?

[Scott Heitman]

We are capturing a stereo feed from the audio board but when we play back the video we want the musicians to be able to have control of the audio from ProTools (like adjusting the individual levels from certain instruments) while watching a synced-up video from Final Cut.