Steve Radley
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I completely understand the use and importance of time of day TC. But as an editor, I am going to go through every shot on every tape anyway. Once I am familiar with the footage, I could find the shot or event the Producer was referencing maybe seconds slower without timecode than with. This to me, outweighs the time wasted waiting to digitize over breaks.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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I think Ben means to Export your clips using MPEG Streamclip to Quicktime using a codec like uncompressed 8-bit or DV50 and then import and edit them in FCP. Yes, you will have to transcode, but the results aren’t too bad at either of these codecs. Then encode back to DVD whatever way you are most comfortable.
This way you can edit frame accurately and resize everything to 720 x 576.
Just let your client know that it’s garbage in – garbage out. Maybe not in those words.Good Luck
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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I have worked on many similar shows where time of day timecode was deemed critical. I had to deal with all the things posted here every time. There never seemed to be one simple solution, other than talking everyone into rec run timecode. Then good logging becomes more important. Seeing that I was going to digitize everything myself, (because I don’t have the luxury of assistants) I knew that the logging of the tapes would be great. Whatever producer I was working with, never gave me timecode anyway. Why waste all this time trying to capture over timecode breaks when the majority of Producers don’t come in with a shot list with code anyway. Well, at least no list’s since non-linear took over.
Just my experience, sorry I’m not much help.Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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Thanks Michael, that’s what I thought. Although I was holding out a little hope.
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I do have PAL black burst patched into the io.
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It was the Io, we had to swap it out for a new one.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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Good to hear from you, Bob. Everything you listed has been covered. I’ve been trying to track it back through all the cabling and I’m having no luck. My next move was to call you. Stop on by.
Thanks,
Steve
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We are just looking for a new quality vendor for replication and packaging for big and small jobs.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
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We have a Toshiba RD-XS34SU. It has an option to record with no menus. You can put chapter markers on the fly and before you finalize you can tell it to loop the program. It also has a 60G hard drive. It is perfect for quick client approval copies. The quality of the encodes are very good.
Steve Radley
Digitec
Orlando, FL
https://www.digitecinteractive.com