Yup - Do this every week on my DV-IN enabled Canon XM2. DD is correct, in that some DV-cameras have been a "oneway" street - DV out only. I believe that this is a UK Custom and Excise law that regards VCRs as an Input device as well as an Output device - but a Camera is purely an Output device. It's about taxes and revenue for the Nation - really old style stuff! Totally out of order, IMHO. And yes I live in the UK.

Grazie

On some lower priced cameras the IEEE in has been disabled (for the reasons Grazie gave, only I think it's EU, not only UK). It gets the camera into a lower Customs category, thus giving it one little advance in the price war. I've never heard this being a problem with moderately (and upwards) priced cameras.
You can print to your camera in any case, but you may have to use the S-Video or some other connection. Look in the book.
Tor

How do I print back to real bona fide Super 8mm film with
some type of SMPTE code?

It is also possible to have your DV camera enabled, by those who know how, if you've bought a camera and now want to record back onto it (as well you might).

I've never heard of an 8mm film format that supported SMPTE timecode.

It doesn't exist but I am looking for some way to do this --
I want to record SMPTE to the audio track on a Super 8 with sound
movie reel, which is striped with smpte instead of audio to lock to a
mackie SDR recorder that has SMPTE LTC inputs. I plan on taking the movie,
playing back the Super 8 with SMPTE and the SDR will lock to it.
Does this make any sense at all?

Ummmm, i guess it makes sense. I'm just not sure what the advantage would be. DV video is probably better quality than 8mm film. I think it would be easier and better to stick with video instead of transferring back to film.

Is this because you have an 8mm projector already but not a video projector?

>>>I want to record SMPTE to the audio track on a Super 8 with sound
movie reel, which is striped with smpte instead of audio to lock to a
mackie SDR recorder that has SMPTE LTC inputs. I plan on taking the movie,
playing back the Super 8 with SMPTE and the SDR will lock to it.
Does this make any sense at all?<<<

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh....very clever!!!

Ok: Does your projector have the "Audio dub" feature that many Super 8 Sound projectors had? That is to record audio on the balance strip? If so than do this - get yourself a SMPTE LTC generator, such as the Horita Tg-50, (Or an Amiga with Sunrize Industry's 'Studio 16' *and* the SMPTE TC plug-in) and set it to where you want it to start - now take the LTC out and put that into where your mic would be going into the projector. Now record as you would normally. Something to keep in mind that is very important - do not over modulate the LTC 'audio' as it is recorded. I have found somewhere around - (minus) 6 db (analog) is a very 'nice' level.

Now if you would need a window burn of that Super 8 film to edit with - when you do your transfer/telecine for your video work print just have whoever does it to take the audio off the balance strip only and run that into their SMPTE reader. That LTC will have to be taken to a Window burn and either VITC and/or LTC on one of the tracks of audio on your video.

here is the tricky part - You aren't going to be able to output TC from VV unless you do the whole midi TC thing and have a set up for that. But assuming your Super 8 film is already edited and will not have any changes it would be easy to dump out your audio to the Mackie and than just figure out the offset between the TC of the actual film and the multi track audio.

Your idea is great I think. Like I said - very clever!

Thank You,
I thought the idea was good as well.
I will have to try this with the film and I will let you know how it works.
My Mackie outputs LTC, so I don't even need a generator.
From the mackie locked to the film I play back, and telecine
into vegas with the Multichannel audio via a video camera.
I also might even be able to just use SMPTE encoded leader.