Had a problem yesterday with two time code issues I would appreciate some insight on. I have been shooting a doco verite style over a long period of time which has burned through quite a bit of tape. My work flow method has been to mark Tape one as 01:00:00:00 with the TC preset and then tape two as 02:00:00:00 and tape 3 as 03:00 ... and so on. Things have been going fine with that method.
Yesterday, after having shot another short project on another tape, I reinserted a tape I had been working on from this longer project and it would not pick up the existing time code on the tape, but held to the time code that had come from the short project that had run through the camera in the interim. I circumvented that by starting new time code on the larger project tape 30 seconds or so (in terms of count) down the road from the last numbers, accepting that there would be a time code break in capturing. That seemed to work. I suspect the right answer to that one is to pick up a few frames into already shot material and then the time code will go on from there. Correct?
The real problem was that after completing tape 23 (I told you it was long) of the larger project, it would not let me set 24:00:00:00 in TC Preset, just as it won't let you preset more than a 5 in the "tens" column of the minutes (forestalling more than 60 minutes in an hour) . It's as if it would not go more 24 hours (a day), as it won't go past 60 minutes (in the hour). It would get to three then revert back down to 0, just as the minutes gets to 5 and reverts to 0.
I've gone back through threads on this site and refer to one (I printed) started by jgschmidt on 8/30/04 in which Barry explains REGEN and PRESET. It ended with Shooter posting his workflow method on 9/17/04 which indicates you can go up to 99 tapes. I've come across nothing to dispute this, and this is the approach I've employed and I'm surprised to hit this roadblock.
I'm sure I've missed something obvious, glad that it's not a snake that would bite me, and I'll be banging my forehead with the heel of my hand when it's pointed out; nonetheless if any one has any thoughts on this, it would be appreciated.
I don't know -- and doubt -- the two incidents are related.
Thanks in advance.
CJ
Yesterday, after having shot another short project on another tape, I reinserted a tape I had been working on from this longer project and it would not pick up the existing time code on the tape, but held to the time code that had come from the short project that had run through the camera in the interim. I circumvented that by starting new time code on the larger project tape 30 seconds or so (in terms of count) down the road from the last numbers, accepting that there would be a time code break in capturing. That seemed to work. I suspect the right answer to that one is to pick up a few frames into already shot material and then the time code will go on from there. Correct?
The real problem was that after completing tape 23 (I told you it was long) of the larger project, it would not let me set 24:00:00:00 in TC Preset, just as it won't let you preset more than a 5 in the "tens" column of the minutes (forestalling more than 60 minutes in an hour) . It's as if it would not go more 24 hours (a day), as it won't go past 60 minutes (in the hour). It would get to three then revert back down to 0, just as the minutes gets to 5 and reverts to 0.
I've gone back through threads on this site and refer to one (I printed) started by jgschmidt on 8/30/04 in which Barry explains REGEN and PRESET. It ended with Shooter posting his workflow method on 9/17/04 which indicates you can go up to 99 tapes. I've come across nothing to dispute this, and this is the approach I've employed and I'm surprised to hit this roadblock.
I'm sure I've missed something obvious, glad that it's not a snake that would bite me, and I'll be banging my forehead with the heel of my hand when it's pointed out; nonetheless if any one has any thoughts on this, it would be appreciated.
I don't know -- and doubt -- the two incidents are related.
Thanks in advance.
CJ