I wonder what timecode you'd see if you rewound the tape all the way to its stop. This timecode is only 6 frames in, not exactly an easy thing to recapture since you need some amount of preroll. In fact sometimes you'll be able to make this capture the first time because you "captured entire tape" but later on you won't be able to get it because you now need some preroll.

Maybe there's a solution here. Assuming that there was some unrelated timecode right at the head of your tape, maybe vidcap just took the timecode it saw and started adding as it captured. If so, maybe you can fix this by going into the media properties and setting a custom timecode starting at some point you'll have to determine. Do this in a new, clean project by dragging the offline media from the one project into the new one. Ideally you'd compare the tape to the previously captured media and find an easily identifiable frame at the beginning of it all for comparison, do a little math, and then set your custom timecode to start at 0 plus that difference. Of course, you've got a problem here-if you had the original captures you wouldn't need to deal with the problem.

I don't know whether setting a custom timecode will really do the trick. I'm assuming that what would happen is that you'd be altering the media's timeode and then the new capture would use the custom time.

Here are two things to consider for the future. First, stop capturing entire tapes. If you had captured clips, either automatically or by logging, I dare say that you'd only have this problem with the first clip. Second, put bars at the heads of your tapes. This way you don't have needed media sitting right at the very front of the tape. In this case the fouled up time code would be on the bars segment and you'd never even notice the problem.

Rob Mack