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AuxTC reader
For: Win / Mac
There is a Windows version as well.
It can output an ALE file for Avid, as well as changing the QT TC tracks.
So, any application that can handle QuickTime and QuickTime TC now also can work with Audio TC recorded on one of the sound channels.
This is quite important now with all the DSLR's around.
The production team at Endless Picnic in New York liked our software so much, they made a nice blog entry with a video demo. Do have a look at it!
Watch it here.
Note, this was made with an older version of the application.
It can output an ALE file for Avid, as well as changing the QT TC tracks.
So, any application that can handle QuickTime and QuickTime TC now also can work with Audio TC recorded on one of the sound channels.
This is quite important now with all the DSLR's around.
The production team at Endless Picnic in New York liked our software so much, they made a nice blog entry with a video demo. Do have a look at it!
Watch it here.
Note, this was made with an older version of the application.
As most know, FCP, and a lot of other editing applications, cannot read audio (AUX) TC.
Same goes for almost any other editing package, and even Avid has a strange way of handling it. (Well, from version 5 it has improved, but it still can't detect timecode breaks)
This application will take all your trouble away!
If you don't know what this is about:
AUX TC is 'normal' audio timecode, but recorded on one of the normal audio tracks. It also stands for a second (or third) TC track, no matter the way it is stored (this is quite confusing.)
Why would you want AUX TC?
Well, if you do a multicamera shoot and you want to sync up the different reels fast, you normally lock the timecode of all the cameras. Two problems: You cannot easily batch digitize the tapes, as there are huge TC jumps when there was a pause in the recording. Second problem, cheap cameras do not have this option.
What you can do is broadcast a TC signal and record it on one of the audio tracks.
In FCP, choose AUX TC for display and you know exactly what goes where.
Another example, if you shoot a music video, you probably play back a CD of the song while shooting. Create a CD with one channel of the song, and put TC on the other, record both on the camera. Not only do you have a reference to the song, you also instantly know where to put the take on your timeline. As this is a separate TC track, you can always go back to tape for redigitizing.
Main features include
- It decodes LTC if present on one of the audio channels.
- It finds TC breaks and splits your master clip into new subclips.
- It adds a FCP compliant AUX TC track to the exported clips, while maintaining the original TC
- It can merge BWF files with QT video, based on source or AUX tc tracks. (And of course the BWF TC)
- It can batch swap normal / aux TC and back
- Option to export either by ref or self contained.
- NEW option to export to ProRes or DNxHD
- NEW option to alter the TC of the original QT's
- Batch processing of multiple clips
- Works with XML for easy batch processing syncing clips
- Optional, there is a customized version that works as a commandline tool
IMPORTANT WARNING
DO NOT work with clips on network drives!
Changing TC may corrupt your files, if they live on a network drive.
This is NOT a bug in the application, it is something Quicktime or OS related!
The same trouble can occur if you use FCP to change TC on clips living on
network drives!
So copy your files to local storage first!
History
Current version is 4.40 for both Mac and widnows
NOTE, the BWF_QT MERGE application is now in 2.7 (fixed a bug that might bite you on Poly BWF files.)
The original idea was developed by Georg Misch, and further development & bug testing was carried out with Georg Misch and the students of the Filmsound Department at the Institute for Electro- Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.
This has been unnoted for a very long time, and Kudos to those who deserve it!
Same goes for almost any other editing package, and even Avid has a strange way of handling it. (Well, from version 5 it has improved, but it still can't detect timecode breaks)
This application will take all your trouble away!
If you don't know what this is about:
AUX TC is 'normal' audio timecode, but recorded on one of the normal audio tracks. It also stands for a second (or third) TC track, no matter the way it is stored (this is quite confusing.)
Why would you want AUX TC?
Well, if you do a multicamera shoot and you want to sync up the different reels fast, you normally lock the timecode of all the cameras. Two problems: You cannot easily batch digitize the tapes, as there are huge TC jumps when there was a pause in the recording. Second problem, cheap cameras do not have this option.
What you can do is broadcast a TC signal and record it on one of the audio tracks.
In FCP, choose AUX TC for display and you know exactly what goes where.
Another example, if you shoot a music video, you probably play back a CD of the song while shooting. Create a CD with one channel of the song, and put TC on the other, record both on the camera. Not only do you have a reference to the song, you also instantly know where to put the take on your timeline. As this is a separate TC track, you can always go back to tape for redigitizing.
Main features include
- It decodes LTC if present on one of the audio channels.
- It finds TC breaks and splits your master clip into new subclips.
- It adds a FCP compliant AUX TC track to the exported clips, while maintaining the original TC
- It can merge BWF files with QT video, based on source or AUX tc tracks. (And of course the BWF TC)
- It can batch swap normal / aux TC and back
- Option to export either by ref or self contained.
- NEW option to export to ProRes or DNxHD
- NEW option to alter the TC of the original QT's
- Batch processing of multiple clips
- Works with XML for easy batch processing syncing clips
- Optional, there is a customized version that works as a commandline tool
IMPORTANT WARNING
DO NOT work with clips on network drives!
Changing TC may corrupt your files, if they live on a network drive.
This is NOT a bug in the application, it is something Quicktime or OS related!
The same trouble can occur if you use FCP to change TC on clips living on
network drives!
So copy your files to local storage first!
History
Current version is 4.40 for both Mac and widnows
NOTE, the BWF_QT MERGE application is now in 2.7 (fixed a bug that might bite you on Poly BWF files.)
The original idea was developed by Georg Misch, and further development & bug testing was carried out with Georg Misch and the students of the Filmsound Department at the Institute for Electro- Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.
This has been unnoted for a very long time, and Kudos to those who deserve it!