I'm using some Sony cameras that have a synced free rolling timecode, unfortunately this is stored on a separate file created with each video clip. Any ideas on the formating of embedded timecodes that Video Pro X requires? It looks like I will need something to embed the timecode with each XAVC S file I import.
Hi.
Your mention of cameras and timecode presumably means you are dealing with a multicam project? And you want to be certain that the camera outputs stay "in sync"?
VPX cannot read TC files, as far as I know, but its built-in sync capabilities are pretty good - you set one camera's output as a "master" and tell VPX to align other audio objects in other tracks to it. However, if there is any large degree of "drift" between the cameras, which is entirely possible if your video files are continuous and long, then the VPX sync may not be accurate enough for you, unfortunately.
In that case you may have to resort to looking at external software, something like Red Giant's Plural Eyes, which I have used to very tightly sync multicam files with additional ambient audio files. Essentially what it does is to "adjust" the files so that video and audio are perfectly in sync and output "new" versions of those files which can then be imported to VPX for mixing.
HTH
Jeff
Sorry I should have stated that this would be for multicam situations, as you correctly guessed.
I am aware of the audio sync features but this is for situations where the cameras are in separate locations such as inside and outside cars or in seperate cars where audio sync would not work.
According to the help content Video Pro X can read video timecode; (Recording timecode: The timecode for the video that is created by the camera. This timecode information must be saved in the video, otherwise the display will be empty.)
However that is all the information in there. I have also tried a prores file from my Atomos recorder with an embedded timecode but it failed to read that.