time code and iMovie

[Derek Raby]

I'm not sure how you'll be able to have the source clips' timecode appear in
the burn-in, rather than the sequence's time code (sb - how is this done?),
but...

If you do write up an EDL from the Timecode burn-in, you'll probably want to
add 2 seconds or so of pad on either side of your in and out points
("handles") so your Avid friend has a little room to do cross fades and
dissolves in and out of your clips.

Alternately, another option might be to make a sequence with all the source
clips used in your edit lined up in order (with extra pad added on the ends)
and output that to a DV tape and import those clips into the Avid.

DR


On 11/26/02 8:38 AM, "Mark Glick" wrote:

> Good idea.  I use a sony trv-20.  I'll have to experiment with an output
> to the vcr.
> 
> On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 09:35 PM, sb wrote:
> 
>> Since, as a previously poster said, you cannot export an EDL from
>> iMovie,
>> the only way I can think of doing this is to
>> Make an analog dub with the timecode visable.(window burn)
>> Do your edit in iMovie and then using the timecode numbers visible
>> onscreen,
>> write up an EDL for the Avid.
>> 
>>  sb
>> 
>> On 11/25/02 5:41 PM, "Mark Glick" <markglick at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> has  anybody figured this out?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 06:43 AM, Mark Glick wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> A primary concern of mine is timecode.  I'm doing my first commercial
>>>> project on imovie 2.  It's a sales tool, presentation, for a group
>>>> that
>>>> works with special needs children.
>>>> 
>>>> It will be about 12 minutes long.  I was going to rough cut on
>>>> imovie 2
>>>> Then take advantage of a friends avid to do the "on line" with
>>>> effects,
>>>> music and
>>>> titles before outputting to digibeta for delivery.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there anyway to produce a timecode list in imovie 2?
>>>> I suspect I can name my clips as I import them to id the cassette they
>>>> came
>>>> from.
>>>> 
>>>> I was hoping I could load all the camera orginial video into the avid,
>>>> preserving the
>>>> original timecodes on the tapes.  Then I would call out the list that
>>>> corresponds to the movie for imputing into the avid.  Unless there's
>>>> some way
>>>> for the avid to read a mac cdrw.
>>>> 
>>>> any tips?
>>>> 
>>>> I found this mailing list in a book called iMovie 2 The Missing
>>>> Manual.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> Mark