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

Monday, March 23, 2015

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

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.

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