If not for broadcast I'd aim higher- more for around -12 for average dialog levels. (But that's just me.)

Yes- Control Room is more recent. I just opened the clip in both AJA VTR Xchange and Control Room. Both accurately piped out the right timecode (yay). Avid please add this back into MC! - Jim

Just got off the phone w AJA tech support. It is indeed an Avid issue. There should be RP188 timecode embedded in the HD-SDI. But alas there isn't. If FCP and Premiere can do this, why can't Avid? The workaround to error check is to bring quicktime file into AJA VTR exchange, which will pass along the proper timecode.

Yes- I did change the drivers- so there's one more variable. The AJA driver installed was whatever was current back in 2012-13. When I have some time I might try reverting back- but I'm not sure they'll work with 10.9.5. I'm guessing it's an Avid issue since FCP still works fine with it.... I'll post back if I find anything new

While I'm not sure of Avid's official stance on this, I most certainly did have timecode out my system via my Kona LHi card HD-SDI output in the past. I've cut together several broadcast docs all error corrected/scoped in the same way: Output out of MC via Kona LHi's HD-SDI port This feeds client monitor & a Black Magic Ultracope

Below is my Rube-Goldberg workaround to error correct my Media Composer projects with a Black Magic Ultrascope: Export a Quicktime movie from MC Bring into Final Cut Pro 7 (yes- FCP7 since it outputs timecode via HD-SDI just fine) Setup new sequence in FCP with proper timecode start time and insert clip Output via FCP7 to Ultrascope for error checking

Earlier versions of MC (E.g. v6) used to output timecode in the HD-SDI output via Kona cards. It's gone in v8! While I appreciate the features in the new version (background rendering, updated application updater, etc.) NOT providing timecode out through playback is a major setback. Can you please fix this in your next build? I'm sure there

It must be an Avid MC setting/issue. My 5-year old version of Final Cut Pro 7 outputs VITC just fine through the LHi.

MC v6 used to output timecode just fine. Now I'm running MC v8.2 with the latest AJA drivers (10.6) and no longer have timecode embedded in the HD-SDI output from my Kona LHi card. It used to work (with v6) but now it's gone! I've gone through and looked at almost every setting in both MC and AJA Control Panel but nothing works or applies

Thanks this did the trick. (I had the same issue on my mac pro.)