Timecode burn - madness

PerroneFord wrote on 4/23/2010, 11:32 AM
Ok,

Maybe someone has a solution to one or both of these seemingly two simple problems.

1. I am trying to stamp my film dailies with timecode. And I do NOT want the timecode window to obscure the underlying video. Is there ANY way to postion the timecode windows better than left/middle/right and Bottom/Top/Middle? Right now, I have to shrink the video window to 720p just to keep the timecode window off the video.

(example here:

2. Similarly, is there ANY way I can get an automated way to put the title of the clip someone visible when rendering the video? Ideally, I would like a way to title each clip just above the timecode window so that we know which take is being displayed. Right now I am having to do this on a per-clip basis. By the time the movie is finished, we'll have over 1000 clips.

Anyone got ideas on how to pull this off?

Comments

rs170a wrote on 4/23/2010, 12:10 PM
1. Sorry but not that I'm aware of.
2. Check out Quick Label in Excalibur.

Mike
robwood wrote on 4/23/2010, 12:17 PM
adjustable position for Timecode

1) insert new Video Track
2) right-click Track > add Empty Event
3) add Timecode FX to Empty Event
4) use Track Motion for desired position

i have a couple of prepped VEG files with the Empty Event/Timecode already set up: one for 29.97, the other at 23.976).

and sometimes i scale WS footage to SD... then drop the TC to the black: as a bonus the smaller frame-size makes life easier for playback on the sound ed's setup. ymmv.

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re #2: clueless on scripting, but sounds like it'd be handy to have.
PerroneFord wrote on 4/23/2010, 12:21 PM
Thanks for the ideas guys
farss wrote on 4/23/2010, 2:13 PM
That's great but unfortunately will not work if you want source timecode.

Bob.
rs170a wrote on 4/23/2010, 2:55 PM
Bob, that was my thought as well.
The only possible solution I can see is to place the source clip on the timeline at the correct timecode location.
It could get kinda messy though if it was time of day TC and it was a late night shoot :-)

Mike
Former user wrote on 4/23/2010, 3:10 PM
This could be painful with a lot of clips, but you could create subclips of each dailies. Apply timecode effect to original clip. Put subclip on lower track and original clip with BITC on upper track and mask, crop, position etc.

Like I said, painful but it would work.

Dave T2
Udi wrote on 4/24/2010, 8:28 AM
in http://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=sonic-foundry_vegas&post=090718050519.htm
pavelin created a script that changed the text of a preset.

The idea is to create a text preset with font, effects, placement etc. with a known name that will be used as a base template.
You create a temp preset based on that template and each time you change the temp text and create a new generated text.

You can use the same idea to place a text media with the file name and the tape-in time on each event.
It does not provide a full TC only the start time
Also, in my system the media in-time is set to null, only the out-time and length are set correctly, using those and the take offset you can determine the tape time code of the first frame.

The downside is that the script is changing values in the registry...

Udi