Bill, I don't completely understand the problem. Playing a tape
shouldn't affect the quality of the tape, unless it is a really old tape
(ten years or more, but DV's only been around a few years). Making a DV
dub from your Premiere timeline gives you an exact digital copy of the
timeline, and the quality of the VHS tape dubbed from those DV tapes
will then be first generation from your camera original tapes. I agree
that there should be some way to display the timecode from the timeline
on the output (Adobe, are you listening?), but for the time being, the
way you're doing it seems to be the best and only way of achieving your
purposes. If you're having problems with dropouts on your camera tapes,
perhaps it's time for you to invest in better quality tapes.
Good luck,
Glen in Vegas
William McQueen wrote:
> I can currently burn in tape time code if I transfer miniDV video to a
> VHS tape (I suppose I could do the same if I transferred to another
> digital camera). I turn it on with the small hand controller that came
> with my SONY camera and it will transfer as output along with the
> digital images.
>
> However, due to costs, I can't afford to transfer to digi-beta for a
> protection dub and don't want to play the original miniDV shoot tapes
> too many times to accomplish the following.
>
> Of course PP1.5 retains the original time code for each clip that I
> have transferred of video to my HDD, but I also need to provide a
> VHS with TC burned in so the producer/writer can help in selecting
> the images for a first cut. He uses a wheelchair and can't get to the
> edit suite (I'm trying to fix that), so that's how we work together.
>
> Also, I want to share the footage with another producer as stock
> footage, but again, I don't want to have to either give him the original
> shoot tapes, or run them a second or third time to VHS with burned
> in TC.
>
> After winding through this problem, by question is how can I transfer
> the video I transferred to my hard disk back to VHS (or other media)
> with visible time code (burned in time code) so I can share it with
> others?
>
> I guess another issue is how to maintain a constant zero.
>
> Thanks for your collective wisdom.
>
> Bill in Toronto
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