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Old 03-03-2005, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by purejammy
The reason it saves on hiccups is because (quite often) amateur footage has very small gaps of blank tape (no timecode written) between shots.

Most video editors, and their software tools, will use timecode to capture various scenes. If there are gaps in the time code then each shot (after the gap) starts again at zero. This makes the timecode method of capture worse than useless and increases the amount of time the Video Editor has to put in to capture video.

So black (write timecode to) the tape and avoid the hassle.

Enjoy
hi purejammy! newbie here.... question again regd the timecode. sorry, im a little bit blur... :(

pls tell me if get u correctly.... to write the timecode to the tape, i should put the blank tapes on the videocam, put the lens caps and record from start to finish, then rewind and start filming?...?

thanks in advance for ur reply....

cheers!
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