Master Prores to HDCAM-SR Textless Timecode!

Hello, I'm working trial by fire to deliver all the master materials for delivery of a movie.

I'll have a prores copy of my movie to export to HDCAM-SR. The distributors want the titles to be in for the movie, but then after the movie, I need clips of the shots with text removed, easy enough. The tricky part is that the timecode of those clips needs to match the timecode of the original clips in the movie.

I have a company that does the transfer to tape for me, so I'm guessing I can't do it all in one sequence and change the timecode again and again right?

I'm guessing what I will have to do is have the movie as one prores file, and then each clip as it's own prores file with adjusted time code? If I have them put that to one tape, the timecode will automatically adjust to the current video they are importing?

Sorry, hope this makes sense, this whole process is very overwhelming (don't even get me started on the paperwork...) I tried searching online, but there's no definitive guides I can find for starting out with deliveries.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Alex,
if that is what they're really asking (and i'm not sure it is), then the only sensible way is to make a new timeline without text and put that on a new tape, same timecode etc..

cheers
nick

That's what it says alright. I don't know how to provide that. It's a really odd request. And I've delivered dozens of shows with these elements for Discovery Channel, History...Nat Geo.

Shane
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[alex diaz] "Timecode of textless material must match timecode of the texted material on the master. "

This is very imprecise language, which I'm seeing more and more of in various deliverables contracts.

It could mean that the frame rate needs to be the same... it might mean at least the frame number must be the same..., but I have never been asked to replicate the exact same Hrs:Mn:Sec:Fr for textless over my entire career. I have been asked to provide visual time code in "handles" leading up to the textless element, I have been asked for one-second handles, clip-before+clip-after, guide audio... entirely textless masters, you name it otherwise.

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