Time Code and multi-cam

BowmanDigital wrote on 12/6/2005, 6:45 PM

Hi, i own a couple of sony PD-150P's and i film wedding video- is there a way to record timecode that can then be used to sync video on the timeline in vegas? free run would be ideal so that if the other camera person accidentally stops recording during the service i can just resync. Is there a script or a way to do this in vegas easy?

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farss wrote on 12/7/2005, 4:33 AM

Don't know about the Vegas bit, think you're stuck doing it manually but not THAT hard anyway.
You can sync multiple PD150s by using one remote to set all the cameras. As far as I know they you have to recording in DVCAM, however you might be able to fool the camera by setting them up in DVCAM to free run and syncing them and then switching to DV.

Bob.

BowmanDigital wrote on 12/7/2005, 3:46 PM

Thanks bob, i've never really used timecode much since i did stuff with analog linear editing, just thought maybe vegas could read the timecode which allow one to sync video to time of day... is it because of the dv spec that timecode isn't delivered with capture footage? I mean if i've recorded in dvcam, couldn't software capture the extra information? I know its not hard to sync, but if there was a way to auto sync to time of day it would allow say a 2nd camera man to stop recording during "boring" bits instead of just recording non-stop just so that it is easier in post to sync once and not multiple times.

RichR wrote on 12/7/2005, 4:00 PM

you'll get timecode when you capture.