Can Vegas read SMPTE on an audio track?

AndyMac wrote on 6/1/2004, 4:06 PM

Last week we had a multi-camera shoot in a recording studio.
We had 3 DV cameras, 4 radio mics for vocals, a couple of room mics,
and a full set of mics on a drum kit - all were recorded straight
into a ProTools session.
To synch the cameras, we had the idea of running the studio SMPTE
clock, and using the studio headphone distibution system to feed a
mix into each camera with SMPTE on one channel and a mono mix on the
other. A cunning plan, we thought - seems to work OK; the SMPTE unit
reads back from the cameras' audio outputs.

I'll be editing picture with the mono audio track and shooting it
all back into ProTools for the audio mixdown - the SPMTE will be used to synch to picture within the PT session.

My question is...can Vegas read SPMTE timecode from a DV audio stream and display that timecode (rather than tape timecode) whilst monitoring picture?

Cheers,

Andy

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 6/2/2004, 4:53 AM

Yes, Vegas can do this. You will need to feed the Smpte timecode out from one of the analog outputs. On your PC you will need a midi interface that excepts Smpte IN. Usually a 1/4" mono plug input. The midi interface will take the analog smpte signal being fed into it's input and convert that to, midi timecode. In Vegas, you can set the time display to read time code in. You will also need to go into the preferences and set up your midi devices and tell Vegas, where the smpte is coming in at. To sync Vegas to the incoming timecode goto OPTIONS>TIMECODE and select "trigger from midi timecode".

PipelineAudio wrote on 6/2/2004, 9:56 AM

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