Transcribing Help

[El Director]

We're doing a long form documentary at work and have about 12 hours of interviews that we need to have transcribed. We have a service and they are asking for mp3 audio files. We are using Adobe CC. What is the best way to get a 48k mp3 with timecode intact? I am waiting to hear back on if a .wav or .aiff is acceptable as well. Those two formats however have another issue. The only way I've found to keep timecode intact with them is to use Media Encoder. Yet when I bring the r3d clip into Encoder, the start timecode is off anywhere from 45 seconds to a minute.

Anyone have any advice as to the best way to proceed?

Thanks!

 

[Shiblon Wixom]

You could output BWF files from RedcineX Pro

 

[El Director]

Thank you for the tip. We've tried a BWF and the timecode is still off by around 30 seconds. IE: In Premiere, the R3D has a starting timecode of 11:20:30:52 let's say. These coverted files we're getting have a starting timecode of 11:20:56:13.

 

[Shiblon Wixom]

Are you mixing 24p clips with a 23.976 project sequence ? That might account for the drift or offset. Or you shot 23.976 but transcoded or rendered to 24p. Or the sound was recorded at 29.98.

usually an early beta is being used in post or not everything has matching time base.

 

[El Director]

There's no drift, it's the starting timecode. If I bring the Red file in Premiere, it has a starting timecode. If I bring that same file into Media Encoder to make an audio file, it has a completely different starting timecode. What we need is for the clip timecode in Premiere to match up with the clip timecode of our converted audio file.

 

[Shiblon Wixom]

I suppose you could always manually fix the TC and/or TC start point with WaveAgent, which is a sound devices app. It's free and very useful for a vast assortment of sound/audio issues.

wave agent

 

[Simon Dunne]

I always send BITC proxy videos to my company for transcribing. For audio only, try dragging the clip onto the new sequence icon, then on the fly out menu of the time line, set the TC of the sequence to the same TC of the file, then try exporting a broadcast wave that way.