This IS the Avid L2: Re: Re: [Avid-L2] [FR] Source Use Identification + Match Frame Enhancement

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Re: Re: [Avid-L2] [FR] Source Use Identification + Match Frame Enhancement

I just tried it. It takes the TC base of whatever field you've copied it from (or at the very least, the mark in column). The last show I worked on had a problem camera that switched from Drop to nondrop back to drop after every other clip or so. It made it a pain to sync our autosequences, but adding aux TC was easy because we were copying the TC from our sequence's mark in column.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:07 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Trust me it does matter when they are not the same time code base. When entering aux time code Avid defaults to that being the same time code base as the clip. When there is a mismatch and say the camera is non drop but the audio stems came in drop frame then the sequence time code that would be drop frame goes into the aux time code recalculated to non drop and the multigroup gets messed up. However one of our more robust AEs took the time to troubleshoot and found if you typed in the aux time code and manually hit the ";" or ":" to tell Avid what the aux time code needed to be then it would multigroup properly based on aux time code. The other AEs didn't bother as they only wanted to use their macro they had inherited so they went and modified the time code base of the audio and the file cameras to non drop. Come online time it was a bit of a time suck but they managed it for the few days that were messed up.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <namyrb@...> wrote :

If you're getting the TC from your sequence's Mark In then it shouldn't matter.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:33 PM, bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Many of our AEs use the quick keys macros for subclipping to make multigroups. Unfortunately many just use them by rout and don't really understand what's going on. One issue the macros don't handle is when your base timecode, usually from the audio stems is not the same time code base as the cameras are. We shoot non drop on our reality series but for a few seasons production has f'd up the first few days of shooting and they have a mismatch of drop vs. nondrop. If you manually enter the ";" or ":" to indicate the time code type for the aux time code Avid will handle a mismatch. When using the quick keys macro their is no provision to manually add the ";" or ":" as needed. At this point our AEs decide to modify source time code so they all match. Needless to say this creates problems down the line so while the Quick key macro is powerful it helps to really know what it's doing so you can resort to manual methods when needed. I've been burned by this and I'm still healing. ;-)