Traditionally, changing timecode on clips was a snap! Highlight it / Clip / Modify / Set Timecode by Field...

Question: For media that was ingested via an AirSpeed attached to Interplay and which lives on a Unity, I've heard the process is trickier due to the way Interplay names its clips; embeds metadata; or whatever.

Not sure yet but I might be inhereting a project with 30 tapes that all need timecode modification. (Long story, not enough time to type it.) Worst-case-scenario, I'll consolidate them all locally, mod them, then consolidate them back to the unity as new clips, but a faster & more efficient way would be helpful. Thanks in advance! (Yes, I'll post this to the Interplay folks as well.)

Chris,

I just came across this and have asked a few of the internal Avid Interplay folks to jump in....  I will follow and make sure someone does.

marianna

Hey Chris....

According to the engineer......

It depends on the workflow.  If multirez is not involved, then there should not be a problem.  If multirez is part of the workflow, then relink could be affected.

Is multirez in the loop here?

Marianna

More scoop from Lyne

There is a warning stating that dynamic relink WON’T WORK on these clip once you perform a change source operation like the change TC.  But we are not aware that the process of changing timecode itself is more complicated on Interplay than it is on standalone.

Marianna

Nope, not using dynamic relink at all. Here's the total scoop:

Working on a documentary. 24 tapes, 60minutes each.

Ingested tapes using Pilot/AirSpeed. The clip was placed in a location on Unity. The finished clip was loaded back into the AirSpeed and played. We ran the video through a timecode generator and recorded the result to a DVD recorder.

(Note - this is the standard process by which our producers take home DVDs to log their shots. Since the source clip is the same clip the editor will use, the process guarantees matching timecode. Yes I know, we're tenacious here!)

...Then we upgraded our Unity and AirSpeed to new product versions. Without going into details, some of the 60-minute clips disappeared -- resulting in our need to redigitize. Due to operator error, we've discovered that the timecode for the ORIGINAL CLIPS that we made burn-in DVDs of was wrong. The newly digitized clips are fine, and match the actual tapes.

So - since the producer has already done work using the DVDs, we want to alter the timecode of the new clips to match the DVDs. (Yes I know, don't laugh.)