time code and iMovie

[sb]

yeah, that's another way to do it - by putting together a clip reel from
iMovie and then just importing that to the Avid. You'll lose the original
tc, of course, but as long as it's not necessary to go back to the original
tapes, I guess he could live with it.

The way to burn in TC thru with a DV camera is to turn on Display during the
capture. Unfortunately, it's not like a pro deck where you can position the
tc (like lower third), but you do get the DV tc in the picture.

I believe that iMovie starts all clips with tc of 00:00;00 (you iMovie
mavens can jump in and correct me here, if I'm wrong), so once the material
is captured into iMovie, the only tc that references back to the original
tapes would be the burned in tc.

sb

On 11/26/02 7:36 PM, "Derek Raby" <derekraby at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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
> 
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