4 Timecodes on film cameras?

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DVX100Shooter

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I just bought a movie called You Got Served it just came out on DVD the other day. I was looking at some behind the scenes footage on the dvd and they have 4 separate timecodes on the screen. Now they said they used 5 cameras to shoot the opening scene. My question is do all Film Cameras have more than one timecode? If so, what is that for?
 
Re: 4 Timecodes on film cameras?

The burn-in windows that are typical of a feature film would be:

KeyKode which tracks the original camera negative and it looks like:
KJ 12 3456-2345+00

Pulldown - tracksa the pulldown cadence of the fim transfer to video and looks like; A, B, C, D, etc.

Video timecode: 01:00:00:00

Audio or production timecode which is usually time of day timecode:
12:00:00:00

If they are tracking workprint and transferred from the workprint there would be something like: 0032-1000+00 where 32 would be the scene, all takes are tranferred in ascending order and the 1000 would be the first reel of scene 32. 2000 would be used for a second reel etc. These numbers are assignable by the post production crew.

24 frame timecode. If the negative was transferred to 24frame HD replacing the workprint in the workflow, then there would be a 24 frame tienmcode burn-in:
01:00:00:23

You can record a timecode to the negative itself during production which matches the time of day timecode of the audio. A master clock is used to blast the cameras and audio recorder with the same timecode. Aaton and Arri both provide in camera timecode solutions.

Sometimes a camera roll will be added etc.

In a multicamera situation, all the cameras would either have the same interbal timecode being recorded or they all shoot the same timecode on the smartslate. This time of day timecode becomes the common timecode used later in post for grouping and editing.

Michael
 
Re: 4 Timecodes on film cameras?

Good rundown on the Viscode Peter. On the DVX if your wondering how to sync up timecode to 2 cameras without a sync slate, you can set both cameras to Freerun witch simulates TD code, by setting both cameras to Freerun and using 1 remote to start the timecode at the same time. The Timecode will start to run like a stopwatch even when the camera is in pause or when you take the battery out.
 
Re: 4 Timecodes on film cameras?

yes, same remotes, same commands, just make sure you use the menus manually to get to the timecode section as the menus are minutely different.
 
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