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Monday, March 23, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] OT Capture tapes with discontinuous timecode

He needs source timecode to easier facilitate the MULTICAM nature of the tapes.

Needing a single clip from those different timecodes is the problem. You can have one or the other, but not both.

Maybe if you captured as a single clip using TOD, and also capture LTC from the source tape you could convert that LTC to AUX TC. Grouping clips allows you to use AUX TC.

Steve

On Mar 23, 2015, at 9:34 AM, 'Bouke ( Edit'B)' bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

It is possible with ltc, but no one will understand it. Why is source tc so important? Probably i can automate conversion of existing spot lists / bin info.

Bouke

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Op 23 mrt. 2015 om 13:48 heeft 'Nigel Gourley' avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven:

But none of these solutions actually do it!..

I want one file only that is a match of the tape in its entirety including the source timecode. I can't have multiple files and I can't have one file with the wrong timecode.

I suspect it's not possible but I wanted to check.

Nige

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Jamsync no problem.

On 23 Mar 2015, at 7:40 pm, Steve Hullfish Steve@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



Yes. I got it slightly backward. It's been over a decade since I've captured from tape now. The loss of time for pre-roll is on initial capture instead of batch capture. Either way you'd lose a few seconds due to pre-roll. Of course if this was linear editing, you'd still lose those same seconds unless you went for non-timecode control track pre-roll (WOW am I dating myself!)

Steve

On Mar 23, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I'm talking about the first capture, not a subsequent attempt at recapture.

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

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Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT Capture tapes with discontinuous timecode



That's kind of what I said.

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On Mar 23, 2015, at 6:44 AM, "Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



This will work but you'll lose as many seconds as your pre-roll is set to (is that English)? On a break, the system backs up to the start of the next good section of continuous TC and starts a pre-roll.

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

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Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT Capture tapes with discontinuous timecode



Depends on your set-up I guess and your ultimate need for archiving or your desire for an "automatic" solution.

Back when I was cutting a lot of documentary footage, we certainly used the real timecode from tapes to capture directly into Media Composer. I haven't had a deck hooked up to a personal MC in - I don't know - a decade, but if you've tried this and failed, it could be that you need to go to your Settings>Capture Settings and mark the check box for Capture across timecode breaks. Make sure you've got the TC track selected in the Capture tool and Avid will grab the correct timecode as part of the file.

The trick with this method is that if you EDIT with this material and you use footage from the first few seconds, then BATCH CAPTURING those clips will be difficult because on batch capture then Avid will need to have continuous timecode for 3-6 seconds before the first frame you need. But the INITIAL capture of discontinuous timecode should include virtually every frame on the tape.

Steve

On Mar 22, 2015, at 12:53 PM, 'Nigel Gourley' avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Really how do you think you would do that?

N

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Media Composer?

Steve

On Mar 22, 2015, at 12:39 PM, 'Nigel Gourley' avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

We have a lot of tapes that we need to convert to files and they have discontinuous timecode. We want the capture to match the tape so just one clip per tape, but we want the timecode as well.

We could capture the timecode as an audio track but we'd prefer to have the file timecode match MXF preferably but QT at a push.

Anyone found capture software that does this?

NIge