[Todd Geer]

For all following this post, Sony hasn’t dropped the ball and is forwarding to development:

Thank you for your patience. I would just like to let you know that, since I am reproducing the issue here, I am going to be sending this issue off to our development team. They will look into the issue and offer solutions if available. If not, the issue will be bugged. I will update you once I hear back from them.

[Todd Geer]

Done. I submitted your input to Sony in my service request. They must be looking at it hard – they haven’t even responded to me about it yet!

Panasonic wrote back to me and their statement was:

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Hello,

We checked with the Panasonic Product Engineering Group and they indicate the following:

Once you transcode it, the new TC will be different and this is an editing software issue.
Also with long GOP there is the possibility of missing frames during transcoding.
This does not appear to be a Panasonic problem with the camera.

Thanks
Raj
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I’m hoping that Sony will figure it out.

CS5 can see the timecode. Avid Media Composer can see the timecode. I understand that FCP can see the timecode. Vegas does not.

I’ll keep you in the loop.

[Todd Geer]

Thanks for all the effort!! If my previous post is goobered and I wasn’t clear, let me know.

And it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with zero-ing, or resetting, or free run or rec run Timecode settings of any kind in the camera – the timecode recorded, as shown in the Playback mode on the camera (it IS there), simply is not seen by any Vegas install or user I’ve checked with.

The more folks who say, “I have Vegas and it doesn’t show AVCHD Timecode” the more information I can get to Sony.

Thus far, NO Vegas user reports proper timecode display of AVCHD files in Vegas.

Thanks!

[Todd Geer]

Hey, DSE. Thanks – and while I gotcha, what’s your thoughts about this?

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/911126

I have a ticket in with Sony now, have been piling on the documentation/research in the ticket.

[Todd Geer]

Hi, Alf – I think you’re on the right track.

Basically, looking at Vegas’s “Project Media” tab/window, “Details” view, there’s a column labeled “Timecode In.”

For any clip recorded with the 150, what is the “Timecode In” value? Do any of them start with something other than 00?

Subclips will show something other than zero, if you have any. We’re looking for the original clips themselves.

In addition to the “Timecode In” column, the start and end timecodes of a clip are displayed on the clip when dropped onto the timeline. Options, Preferences, Video, “Show source frame numbers…” set to “Timecode.” Any clips on the timeline after that setting is set to “Timecode” show timecode information?

Thank you!

[Todd Geer]

Awesome, thanks Jerry!

[Todd Geer]

Update: I’ve updated the firmware to the latest, 1.20, no change. Called Panny back and am working the issue with them, still an unknown issue.

I’ve transferred the files via cable from the camera as well as by sliding the mem card into the slot in my PC, no change.

Anyone have an HMC150? Can I “borrow” at very short clip to see if your cam writes the data?

[Todd Geer]

Thanks, Gilles! Just what I was looking for!

[Todd Geer]

Correct, it appears to have been written when V4 was the current version, so I’m sure the developer put that in as a disclaimer/clarifier.

Someone out there who knows js should recognize the error and know what it’s talking about, and THAT’s what I’m looking for. Else I would be able to solve it myself.