Timecode burn in from Quicktime Reference

[crazytiger]

Hi all,

Firstly can I say how amazing this piece of software is. Playing around with it the last day or so I have found it to be a very well thought through and designed piece of kit.

Whilst testing it, I have been trying to put Quicktime references through and use the timecode burn in filter. But It doesn't seem to work as I thought - it keeps using 00:00:00:00 and not the embedded. - I have "use original medias start timecode" selected in the timecode filter.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for the cool software!

Cheers,

[admin]

Hi crazy tiger, thank you for using FFAStrans and welcome to the forum!

The problem with quicktime reference files is that they are only supported through an AviSynth script. AviSynth does not know timecode unfortunately so with the current method, reading timecode from QT-ref files is not possible. But I will take a look at how it can be done. Thanks for reporting!

-steinar

[crazytiger]

Hi Steinar,

Sorry for the delay.

That would be awesome if it were possible, this is a great piece of kit, really well thought out, and powerful.

Yeah if there is any update with this in the future, I't would be really interesting to know.

thanks again,

[Ghtais]

Hi

any chances that we can read Timecode from a QTRef ?
That would be a great future.
Thank you steinar

[admin]

FFAStrans actually has no inbuilt support for QT-ref files but it can be configured to read and process those files. However, it's limited to just being an AviSynth script and the QTSource plugin from Tateu. However, FFAStrans is quite powerfull and with some clever workflows we might be able to get that timecode from the QT-ref file. Please take a look at the submitted workflow: The "Populate variables" stores the timecode from the QT-ref source in a temporary variable and reuses it in the "H264" node.

-steinar

[Ghtais]

Hi
thank you for this tip, it works perfectely