Sorry, been reading along – here is my on topic but off topic issue with FCP and output of timecode to tape in PTV output…
I edit a fair amount of live multicamera award and corporte shows that have a live element (to large projection) and a tape archive for future use. They often need some fix-up on a portion of a single source BSP or DIGIBETA tape. All tapes have Time-of-Day timecode for all machines to match any cameras that a wild and not going to the live audience. I have one right now where the set-up on one camera of the line cut was way wrong in the record and I need to go in and color correct but then re-output this tape with THE SAME TIMECODE as it started, frame for frame or they will never be able to deal with the rest of the edits.
So what is the answer. I