Hello Everyone.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a new user at the Magic Lantern forum, but have been reading alot about it, and testing it a lot. Still much to learn and whatnot.
The developers has done a hell of a job. Cudos!!
So to the topic everynoe wants to know about. We have earlier heard that we can forget about timecodes with ML. Also i did for a while.
For my workflow i use MLViewer and raw2cdng and further post in after effects and premiere. I try to stay away from DaVinci since its a new workflow style for me, and honestly i dont get the node-workflow.
But back to the timecode; I were in a productionsituation where we had no slate or sound-videosync capabilities. My card seem to be choking and i can capture about a minute or so of footage before it cuts. The cards i use are LExar 1066x, their first model.
I struggled bigtime syncing the footage manually, so i used my creativity. I used the specific capture time; UTC recorded with the MLRAW file.
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On import i separate my import files in different card folders. To further the controll of time.
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Back to the UTC in the ML raw file. When the files are "graded" with CameraRaw and imported online(has to be online to change TC) i set to change the timecode. The first image in this post is the first image in the videoproject.
This is how you can change the TC's
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Now to sync these up you could use a adjustmentlayer on top of all files in the project or a "black video" file. And add a timecode effect to display TC. On this clip you use the first UTC you have, and on every each other clip you ad a second timecode with each respective TC from the MLraw file. Then sync up.
I am in a hurry and will reply as fast as humanly possible.
Hope this helps
Thanks for great software.
Best Regards
TS