Capturing live to FCP

Hi guys
I would like to capture a live event straight to FCP using firewire but FCP keeps asking me for Timecode.
Is there a way around that ?

But then you do not get time-of-day-timecode!
Is there any way of live capturing av AND time-code, similar to the AVID source/external/internal time code?
Even recording the internal clock time would be something.

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