Hi there,
I suppose most of you here work with video and I have always asked myself what the best method would be to keep the timecode that’s displayed in the video window and is also baked into the video export independent of the global project/timeline’s timecode?
For example: I have a clip that I split into two halves. One half is scene 1 and the second half is scene 2 which I would rather move upfront as the score I am writing is producing an audio tail that I would like to let chime out until the rest of the score is played.
But when I move the second half upfront, the timecode is increased by the x amount I move it upwards and does not reflect the time in the original video clip anymore.
What would be the best approach to change it back? If that’s even possible.
Nothing crucial but it has just always been bugging me.
To make it more clear, I am looking for a better way to handle several cues in one project.
- Using the “Set Timecode at cursor” does not help me in this case
When I use it, I need to know when exactly in the video’s timecode I did the cut and then enter it manually. This is too unintuitive and leaves a lot of room for mistakes. Not to mention a current bug that seems to happen when you use the function and it immediatly changes your ruler units to “seconds” for some reason.
It also does not help if you have, let’s say 3 or 5 different cues in your project. Every time you want to export a demo video for the client seems unnessesary and tedious.
- “Why don’t you make a new project per cue?”
Also not very practical. First of all, when the video I am working on is just 3-5 minutes long, why make a project for every 30 seconds cue I write? Furthermore, when you work with a big orchestra template, closing and opening these projects becomes a hassle. So I keep everything in just one project.
Also this does not solve the problem with the timecode either, it’s just 1. but with more steps.
What I am looking for is some kind of way to just skip a certain time interval in the main timeline and then continue somewhere later where I placed the other video clip.
I was thinking, it would be great to just cut the timeline together with the video 
What we need is some kind of “uber” area for a whole collection of projects. Something similar to what Adobe is doing with their artboards in Illustrator.
After talking to a colleague, I heard that Digital Performer used to have a better implementation of how timecode is handled.