How do I ignore timecode when capturing?

I'm trying to capture using a Canon GL2. I'd like to capture my footage, but it keeps stopping because of time code breaks. How do I ignore timecode and just capture now?

There are some subtleties to the dub business.
If you start the recording before you start the playback, the recording machine will lay down new TC and you get an unbroken TC with no time of day info on the tape. In essence, the whole tape was created at the moment you hit 'record' to start the dub. As you observe, Start/Stop Detect is useless on this tape as there is nothing to detect.
If you start the playback before you start recording, the recording machine will use the existing TC, The new tape inherits all the TC properties (good or bad) of the existing tape. Useful when you do not want to use your camera master in your edit deck.
The suggestion to dub the tape in this thread is intended to overwrite a discontinuous TC with a continuous one. Having continuous timecode is infinitely more important than start/stop detect.
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ps In this particular thread the cause of the "time code breaks" could also have been the result of:
a. the use of the wrong firewire capture protocol. With Canon cameras, it should be Firewire BASIC.
b. attempting to capture to an external firewire drive with the camera on the same bus. Canon's implementation of firewire can screw up capturing in this arrangement.
c. trying to play a tape recorded on a Canon on another machine. the TC track written by Canon cameras can prove problematic.
and on and on and on ....
one final point - when you use 'non-controllable device' with TC based material (DV for example), TC info IS captured along with the file. All 'non-controllable device' does is turn off the machine control portion of the protocol so it won't hang looking for something that is not there.

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