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Turning time code off

X-Brian
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Mar 25, 2001, 11:54 PM

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Does anyone know if it is possible to turn off burning the time code onto the DV during recording with the XL1? I'd love to stripe my tapes with a continuous timecode before hand.
thanks,
Brian

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Mar 26, 2001, 7:39 AM

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: Does anyone know if it is possible to turn off burning the time code onto the DV during recording with the XL1? I'd love to stripe my tapes with a continuous timecode before hand.
No. The timecode is always recorded with the DV signal. Time code will be continuous if you have a bit of overlap between new and the previous scene. The XL1 will just naturally provide this if you do not disrupt tape position by reviewing the previous shot. A good practice is to record a few seconds extra at the end of each shot. Then after a review you can queue the tape to start recording over the extra footage. This will ensure continuous time code, and save the wear of pre-blacking a tape to add timecode.

X-Nathan
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Mar 26, 2001, 6:42 PM

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Pre-striping is really unnecessary. It is more important to do pre/post rolls and use the record search buttons (top 2 buttons on left side of camera). All you do is back up the tape over the last good t/c. If the cam is on a good t/c, you will see it on the second line in the upper right hand corner of the EVF. You cannot suppress that t/c in the EVF (you can on the S-video and RCA jack).
If you want to suppress everything but the upper right hand corner data, you can use the remote and press 'on screen' and 'data code' buttons. These buttons will also kill these from being routed to the S-video and RCA jacks.
Nathan Gifford
: Does anyone know if it is possible to turn off burning the time code onto the DV during recording with the XL1? I'd love to stripe my tapes with a continuous timecode before hand.
: thanks,
: Brian