[Steven Gonzales]

There’s also a program called Boom Recorder which says “timecode
LTC SMPTE/EBU timecode signal are decoded from any audio channel. Jam or continues sync. Many frame rate formats are supported. Start and stop on timecode availability.”

It’s relatively cheap if it works. I have no experience with it.

https://www.vosgames.nl/products/BoomRecorder/

[Steven Gonzales]

Horita has a product, TCI-50, which “The TCI-50 reads SMPTE VITC or LTC time code and translates and inserts the time code numbers into the RS-422 data stream going back to an edit controller or personal computer.”

https://www.horita.com/
https://www.horita.com/images/products/rear/TCI-50.jpg

[Steven Gonzales]

1. You can check the video TC against the burn in. If the count skips two counts at any minute except even 10 minute, it’s drop frame.

For sound TC, you should check with the sound man. Are there sound logs? Are you using the sound off the videotape? You should find out the specs for the original sound and decide which you will use for sound editing. If you are going to conform the original sound to your cut, then you need to make sure sound TC is correct in Cinema Tools

2. There’s already a pathway between Cinema Tools and Final Cut, and your normal batch list should be complete.

3. The use of 24 or 23.98 depends on sound. If you are syncing yourself, and you want to bring sound in without changing it’s speed, then you reverse telecine to 24, which removes extra fields AND speeds up the picture by .1%. If you are already in sync, then you probably will use 23.98 because it makes video play to an external monitor better, and it makes video dubs easier.

[Steven Gonzales]

Also sometimes called SMPTE Leader.

[Steven Gonzales]

I don’t understand what an EDL for telecine is. Telecine is usually the first step, transferring film to video, and lists often come from that process and are brought to Cinema Tools and Final Cut Pro.

What are you trying to do?

Cinema Tools is the environment where film lists are created.

A little more detail, and I’m sure the collective here can help you.

[Steven Gonzales]

OMF is limited to 2gb. Try copying your timeline, and deleting audio tracks until you fit under the 2gb limit. Then go back and export the other audio tracks separately.

[Steven Gonzales]

There’s a tool called XMLtoText from http://www.spherico.de/filmtools.

Here’s a description which might do what you want:

Also text string information of standard FCP text generators is extracted into an extra text data source…

So you could export an XML and then use this tool to pull the FCP text generators subtitles (free 30 day trial). If this doesn’t work, some other XML parser could help.

[Steven Gonzales]

Start at the end, with what you have to deliver, and then work backwards. You have to deliver the right lists to the DI or negative cutter, and you have to deliver the right lists and data to the sound edit.

It’s way easier to get this correct now then rework it later. If this was already logged and put in sync in Avid, there may be some advantage in bringing over that information with a tool such as Automatic Duck. At the very least, you could export Avid Log Exchange from the bins in Avid, and import those into Cinema Tools, and convert to batch capture lists to bring into Final Cut.

In my experience, producers making workflow and edit system decisions usually creates problems. If the project already exists on Avid, it might just be easier to leave it there. All this restart work is time you could be spending correcting the story problems in the movie.

Good luck.

[Steven Gonzales]

Theres Open office and Textwrangler, free text editors that might save you some trouble.

https://download.openoffice.org/index.html
https://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

[Steven Gonzales]

Your files are being saved in Rich Text Format, so there’s a bunch of header information that final cut cannot interpret.

Your file #1 has this at the beginning:

“{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf350
{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
\paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww16260\viewh13580\viewkind0
\pard\tx1700\tx3714\tx5895\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural

\f0\fs24 \cf0 \”

File 2 was saved as a “pages” file, 3 was saved as a “numbers” file, 3b was saved as an Excel file, 4 was saved as a “numbers” file, and 4b was saved as an Excel file.

You need to save as tab delimited text file. From excel, do this by File-save as — Text (Tab delimited).