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

Sunday, March 22, 2015

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