If you haven’t ventured over to the Studio Daily training section of the website lately then allow me to promote a tutorial that recently went online about using Auxiliary Timecode. Here’s a teaser:

One very under utilized feature in both Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro is the software’s ability to assign an auxiliary timecode to clips. An auxiliary timecode is basically a fake, user-assignable timecode track that can be set to any timecode the editor desires.

Aux timecode is best used when you want to sync a lot of takes together when using a common master timecode like a music video. Or when you have a multicam shoot where the cameras aren’t jam synced to a master timecode. The tutorial talks about both of these scenarios as well as walking the reader through both Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro. I don’t talk about Avid’s ability to read an audio timecode signal recorded on one of the audio channels. That’s a topic for a later post … and that is a handy feature.

So click over and give it a read if you want to learn about Auxiliary Timecode. You could learn how to sync a mess of a timeline like this: