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

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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

FCP7 has a "Make Multiclip Sequence" function that can help you.

Hopefully your broken TC is incrementing and doesn't roll over midnight.

First you have to ingest the tape in FCP to get each clip separately in their own bin.

Then, select all clips, right click, select the Make Multiclip Sequence function. Click OK.

You end up with a new bin full of multiclips and a sequence. Both have the same name. Trash the bin of multiclips.

The sequence is a carbon copy of your tape. The missing time between the clips got filled with blacks. The TC is continuous and matches the tape. The sequence is as long as the time on the tape. Meaning that if the first clip starts at 9am and the last clip finishes at 2pm the sequence is 5 hrs long.

Export to QT. Now you have one long clip per tape.

When you playback the movie in QT player, the TC window shows a sequence starting at zero. This is wrong. Import that movie in Avid or FCP and you get a TC matching the tape.

Have fun.

Marcel

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:39 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