Originally Posted by RedShoe

HDV is the format some of the directors shoot in. When I get it, I digitize it, then edit it. Then I run them out to DVCAM tapes to send to the distributor. From there they go to the DVD author, (In this case my cousin is the BluRay author so he usually just takes my .VEG file) and they get sent to cable companies, and are duped for over seas sales as well as hotels from what I hear.

All those other companies all use hardware that they simply drop the tape into, and punch in the TRT, and their equipment records to that exact time code. Well... somewhere along the line my setup either A) isn't creating a proper time code, or B) is dropping it on printing to the tape.

From what I can tell, when Vegas renders out a new video it uses the time code that was on the original footage. So in a since there is no solid time code, it's all broken up.

It appears that on the deck you can have that time code re-written, but I could have sworn when I did that on the first few DVCAMS I created that the time code did not get rewritten, if it detected a time code from the source. Since the time code is ALWAYS on the source, the new time code was not overriding the old one.

Anyway, to answer your question, it's not like I have a choice. I wish I did, but I don't. It's not like I can just take 20 years of broadcasting standards and send the distributor an HDV master that won't work for all their clients that licensed the rights. DVCAM 184's are what I was told to use, it's what I've been using since 2001. And it's worked fine up until I had to put HD onto a DVCAM using the M15U with Vegas Pro 8.