Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Canon D5....

Philip,
MC do read and insert QT TC, but do not include the reelname!
Why is that?

And, latest version of my QT change app. now adds TC from the Canon's
metadate, thus way more accurate than the file date / time.
So with IgnoreQTrate = true and QTchange the MetaCheater dance is not
needed.
(except of course if you want other metadata to come across, in that case it
could make a nice combo)

If Zabev has no time, get back to me and i'll add Metacheater functionality
to QTchange.

Bouke

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----- Original Message -----
From: "phillipsm" <michael_phillips@avid.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:52 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Canon D5....

Great overview Oliver. Just a few tweaks for clarification purposes...

Recent versions of Media Composer and Symphony do read and insert timecode
for QT for import/export. The issue with the 5D files specifically is that
they do not contain a timecode. One could easily imagine converting creation
date into a reel ID and HH:MM:xx;xx where xx:xx are defaulted to 00:00. I
have made this request to Zabez, the creator of MetaCheater. But MetaCheater
does have a nice feature for non timecoded sources where the user can define
a timecode for the sync point of all the files in the batch and then
calculate all START and END for clips based on clip's duration. Then you can
default to clip name as TAPE or enter any of your own choice for
organizational purposes.

The added benefit of using MetaCheater is some workflows is to give the clip
the behavior of a tape-based clip where additional metadata, offset
relinking, EDL's, pull lists can be generated. In workflows where that is
not needed, then a one-time transcode to finishing resolution of choice
works fine without the ALE merge step.

For audio. I really like WaveAgent from SoundDevices as a free utility for
both Mac and Windows that allows setting a sample rate to audio files,
timecode, etc. A basic rule to observe when going from 30.00 to 29.97 (and
is the same for 24.000 to 23.976) is that if recording on a separate device
on set to record 48.048kHz. If that was not done on set, and the files were
recorded at 48kHz, then the sample rate should be reset to 47.952kHz in an
application like WaveAgent. Be sure to set the audio import correctly for
the .1% duration changes.

Michael

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Joe Womble <cre8tive@...> wrote:
>
> Oliver,
>
> Very handy, succinct reference tool. I will be referencing it often when
> others (Cow, etc.) ask how to post their 5D footage.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe Womble
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:03 PM, oliverpetersvidy <
> oliverpeters@...> wrote:
>
> > Ian,
> >
> > > I see that Phillip Bloom is also promoting the link in his Twitter
> > > feed.
> > > Ian Wilson
> >
> > Yes, I saw that. Nice of him to do so. I reference him a lot in the post
> > and many of the workflow things I'm doing were picked up by me from his
> > blog
> > entries ( http://philipbloom.co.uk/blog/ ).
> >
> > - Oliver
> >
> >
> >
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