Place clip at original time code

[TvdB]

I know that if you are in the Media manager, you can place a clip/take at the original time code.

I would like to be able to place a clip on a track in the project, then right click it and move it to its original record location. Seems pretty basic.

Here's when I need it: comping different takes together. I think this is correct: The beginning of take 23 is better than the beginning of take 26, but take 26 started recording earlier than take 23 did. I put take 23 on the timeline, and trim it until the performance is better on the later take. I go to drop take 26 onto the timeline, but it can't be placed at the original timecode because it will cover take 23. Would be great to be able to manually place it, approximate the edit point, then right click the clip and see the option "place at original timecode" and have it slide into place. Currently, not possible.

workarounds:
- make a dummy track, place it, lock it horizontally and then drag it to the correct track (crazy when the take has 8+ tracks on it though)
- make note of timecode beginning, type into cursor position, click on clip and alt shift left arrow it into place. This requires the track being clear at the spot where the recording starts though.

[DJS]

Yes please! And wouldn't it be great if video NLE's did this very basic function as well. Right click clip, move to timecode. Would love that.

[phaseboy]

I'm not in front of pyramix at the moment but there is a "paste to original timecode" command. So you can just cut and then use that command - or make a macro that does both commands with one key stroke.

[tonzauber]

In theory, this would solve it, however pyramix has a strange idea of "original timecode".

If you copy the file in the Mediamanager to the clipboard, and "paste to original timecode", it will in fact be pasted to the original timecode embedded in the file.

If you copy (or cut) a clip from within the EDL/Project, "paste to original timecode" will place the copied clip at the exact timecode where you copied it from.

So a later re-alignment to original timecode of a clip that is alrady in the project is not easily possible.

[phaseboy]

Wow - so it does - ouch... I think this has to be a bug - I feel like it used to work as one would expect - when I look at the properties tab for a clip it clearly shows the correct timestamp in the "original timecode" field yet is not using that when pasting to original.

[Syma]

In theory, this would solve it, however pyramix has a strange idea of "original timecode".

If you copy the file in the Mediamanager to the clipboard, and "paste to original timecode", it will in fact be pasted to the original timecode embedded in the file.

If you copy (or cut) a clip from within the EDL/Project, "paste to original timecode" will place the copied clip at the exact timecode where you copied it from.

So a later re-alignment to original timecode of a clip that is alrady in the project is not easily possible.

Hi, yes it's a strange idea but a demand from some users i think... not agree with that.
In fact, when there is a selection of clips the original timecode is not taken into account, even when there is only one clip...,
page 189 in the manual :

If the Clipboard contains a single Clip, insert this at its original TimeCode
Works differently with Clips and Range Selections. If the Clipboard contains a single Clip this will be pasted to its original TimeCode. If the Clipboard contains more than one Clip or a selection of a Clip or Clips this will be pasted to the TimeCode at the beginning of where the selection was made on the next Track(s) where there are no Clips which would be overwritten.

There is a solution, like always in Pyramix : you can change the Edit mode in Snap to Original TimeCode mode. Even if edits have been made this mode snap the clip at his original timecode, page 131 in the manual.
A simple shortcut to pass from this mode to the Don't Snap mode and it's done.