Preserving TC while stitching .MXF files

[williame66562968]

Got a question. I receive multiple segments of shoot tape footage as .MXF. All of this footage has "time of day" TC, therefore the TC jumps between segments. I need this TC to be preserved when I stitch these files together so I can create a proxy with a burned TC overlay. When I attempt to do this in Premiere or Media Encode the TC gets regenerated based on the first clip. How can I stitch these files, but preserve the native TC that already exists within each file? I understand the timecode jumps between segments, that's what I want!

[Trevor_Asq · Accepted solution]

‘Timecode’ tracks for files are just a start value and a frame rate - every other value is calculated (start time + (no of frames/frame rate))

So theres no way (that I know of) for a file to have jumping time codes.

(On tape the timecode is recorded as an audio track (LTC) and you *could* emulate that in a file but only some NLEs can read audio timecode & its a world of hurt.)

For a true proxy workflow you’ll have to create a proxy for each file.

For stringouts for viewing/logging purposes just add an adjustment layer on V2 with a timecode effect pointing to clips on v1