What's the best way to setup an LTC chase setup, so that rather than triggers the movie is actually chasing the incoming timecode.
I'm working with a cue list and timecode plugin, receiving external LTC. The cue list is generating a float that I can assign to the playhead of the media. This has the following problems:
-The performance is unusable on .mp4 files, HAP seems to look ok
-The process of routing data around and converting it to float and back to movie time etc doesn't feel like a direct connection to the movie. It would be great if VV could verify if this is the best way.
-The process of generating this float is tedious because you need to know and enter the exact length of each movie and compound the lengths with additional cues etc. Dragging the movies from the media bin onto the cue list generates timing offsets for you but it's buggy and still requires you to duplicate cues and go between 0-1 etc to create your float amongst cues.
-The cue list timecode options seem unusually arbitrary, allowing a framerate input of anything rather than choosing a standard, non-drop code etc.
There seems to be a ui bug in re-arranging cues in the cue list also.
We need to be able to run movies with timecode-synced data that spans the length of the movie/cue. Dragging clips into the cuelist can create cue lengths for us which is great, but we need to be able to lock that to the movie times themselves.
Better yet a dedicated timecode follow function that balances performance with timecode tracking etc.