SPRO2003 - Logging Rushes + TC

Adding Timecode to the rushes allows the Producer/Director to view the files from home and to begin making a paper edit

Follow these steps...


Select all of your merged and labelled clips

Right click and select Export Media... at the bottom of the menu

This will open an Export Settings dialogue box

H.264

Match Source - Medium Bitrate

Add Timecode


Select the Effects tab

Scroll down to Timecode Overlay and select the check box

Make any relevant adjustments

Select Time Source: Media File

 

Select the Queue button at the bottom of the page

This will open up Adobe Media Encoder to do the rest of the conversion for you

By default all the clips will be output to same location as the originals - YOU DO NOT WANT THIS

Select all of the clips (Cmd + a)

Then click on one of the blue Output File locations (this will change all of the Output Locations at once)

Create a new folder called Rushes


Media Management

Good media management would dictate that you create a new folder (inside the Rushes folder) for every day of Shoot


Select the choose button once you have set the location correctly

Select the green play button to encode your clips