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

Monday, March 23, 2015

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

I don't understand the need for a single clip from each tape. That's the pointless part. (Though I have to admit I don't understand your workflow).

If you captured with the source timecode, breaking each clip at the timecode breaks, you can still multi group them back together. Also, the clips will still have the Source Tape name, so you would have the reference to the original tape. So of all of the hassles of trying to do this, the easiest that I see (without seeing the big picture, admittedly) - is to capture multiple clips per tape, with each clip maintaining the original source TC.

What is the need for maintaining a single clip for each tape?

Steve

On Mar 23, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Scott Ham scottham.list@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I doubt you would find a master clip with timecode breaks built in very helpful for editing in multicam. It would create all kinds of useless head and tail trim on every clip you created a multiclip from.

Not sure what your archive system is that can only have one clip per tape but it could give you headaches should you ever need to reedit this footage.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:49 AM, 'Nigel Gourley' avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

They are multicam recordings so we were trying to keep them in sync.. as there are no other sync markers so without source timecode we are stuck.

I suspect it's just not possible

N

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

Why bother?
Most file wrappers only hold a start timecode value so if you did capture discontinuous TC at the first TC jump ot would be wrong with the fike timecode.
You'll never go back to the tapes so just make fresh TC for the files.
The Avid capture across timecode breaks is misleading as it doesn't it just stops and restarts tge capture after the break resulting in seperate clips and files. And it does that because capturing across a TC break would give a single clip that couldn't be conformed back to tape.

Pat from his mobile.