Comments on: What are the different types of metadata we can use in production and post production? http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/01/what-are-the-different-types-of-metadata-we-can-use-in-production-and-post-production/ Philip Hodgetts Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Philip http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/01/what-are-the-different-types-of-metadata-we-can-use-in-production-and-post-production/#comment-83297 Philip Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/?p=165#comment-83297 DV Timecodes covered both Time of day and "SMPTE-like" timecodes. Date was optional - some recorded it, some didn't. No professional NLE uses it. (Years ago Radius had a DV editing tool that showed the TOD TC as well as the "SMPTE-like" TC. Philip DV Timecodes covered both Time of day and “SMPTE-like” timecodes. Date was optional – some recorded it, some didn’t. No professional NLE uses it. (Years ago Radius had a DV editing tool that showed the TOD TC as well as the “SMPTE-like” TC.

Philip

]]> By: John A. Mozzer http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/01/what-are-the-different-types-of-metadata-we-can-use-in-production-and-post-production/#comment-83293 John A. Mozzer Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:31:43 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/?p=165#comment-83293 In your paragraph about "the days when tape-based acquisition ruled...", you mentioned timecode, but you didn't mention the recording date and time. I know from personal experience that miniDV camcorders record the date and time in every single frame, in addition to timecode. And I believe that all of the professional DV camcorders do as well. Recently, David Pogue wrote an article, "Moving Taped Past to Hard-Drive Future", New York Times, April 14, 2010, about his experience capturing family miniDV tapes with Final Cut Pro, and his horror when he discovered the date stamps were missing. He started his project all over, capturing into iMovie, in order to see the date and time information. Actually, I found out that Final Cut does not discard the information -- it is actually still present with the DV data in the Quicktime file(s). But as you know, Final Cut doesn't use it. In your paragraph about “the days when tape-based acquisition ruled…”, you mentioned timecode, but you didn’t mention the recording date and time. I know from personal experience that miniDV camcorders record the date and time in every single frame, in addition to timecode. And I believe that all of the professional DV camcorders do as well. Recently, David Pogue wrote an article, “Moving Taped Past to Hard-Drive Future”, New York Times, April 14, 2010, about his experience capturing family miniDV tapes with Final Cut Pro, and his horror when he discovered the date stamps were missing. He started his project all over, capturing into iMovie, in order to see the date and time information. Actually, I found out that Final Cut does not discard the information — it is actually still present with the DV data in the Quicktime file(s). But as you know, Final Cut doesn’t use it.

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