[Tom Jeffs]

Cheers Ken, that is EXCELLENT!

Really, thanks for that, its exactly what I was looking for. I had seen that site before now but hadn’t found that link in particular.

I’ve emailed the link to a few colleagues as well.

Tom

[Tom Jeffs]

Thanks, it would be helpful of you but we’re in different countries 🙂

Did you use a recorder that embedded timecode in the files, or just TC on track 1 and audio on track 2, and no dedicated timecode input?

[Tom Jeffs]

I have investigated the camera side and it appears there are no settings on
the camera that could influence TC OUT in this fashion. I think the
timecode I have recorded as audio on a track is absolutely fine, its just
that the transcription house cannot process it because they do not have
software that is capable of reading timecode directly from an audio track.

Traditionally on cassette or DAT this wouldn’t be an issue as the equipment
would read timecode normally and be operated with a foot pedal, but on a
digital file I think the software is expecting a single timecode value to be
stamped in the header of the wav file, and would then calculate the timecode
based on this starting value alone – so if you moved 5 minutes into the
recording, it would simply add 5 minutes to the original value in the
header.

I have been looking around the net for a solution for them, I can’t believe
there isn’t much software around that can simply and easily decode timecode
from an audio recording. I believe Avid or FCP may be able to do it, but I
don’t think the transcription company would have either.

If anyone knows of some software that can do this (read audio timecode and
then put it in the wav files) please please could you let me know.

They’ve done the transcriptions now so it isn’t a major problem, but I’d
still like to be able to email timecoded files – that they can use – over to
them to demonstrate that I’ve tried my hardest to come up with a solution.