TIMECODE BLUES!

Question

I posted this in the VideoLounge too, but maybe it belongs more (or will get more views) here. Plus posting the issue in he Video Lounge got me all worked up again about how annoying it is.
repost:
I've edited on EDIT and Avid, anyone else think adobes treatment of timecode is rediculous?
I can't make a 'windowdub' of a timeline for a producer to watch, unless (I've found a way to trick it...) I lay a blank title track and drag it across the whole job and apply the video 'timecode generate' effect to the blank title clip. Even then adobe (ON MY 12 GIG RAM MATROX AXIO LE SYSTEM) likes to render the timecode, it doesnt come off cleanly and can skip numbers and go slowly when your quickly shuttling the CTI around on the timeline. On all the edit and avid software, 'timeline timecode' or 'source timecode' even BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY were applied with a checking of a checkbox in the preferences dialogue box for review veiwing/editing of a piece!
What the devil was adobe thinking! Timecode is the MOST important thing for an editor, not the fancy effect (which my system does ALL of in real time - even when pulling 10 'picture in picture' Matrox 3D DVE effected video streams together WITH titles each - but it wont easily handle time code!) Maybe to many 'home video editors' today don't have need of timeline timecode anymore...but for those of us who work with producers, how are we quickly and efficiently supposed to communicate positions of edits to be made on the job!
The other thing is...
I have in the past, needed to replace a piece of an audio track of a 'linked togther' clip. Or because of a J-cut, I have lost the 'link' between my video and audio tracks (you drag one out, the other doesnt link and follow intuitively).
This has lead to extreme problems on my end, because, I try to drag my video clip into my source viewer, mark down the timecoded ins and outs, and then I wil drag the audio from the bin (because in the cource viewer with a clip off the timeline, you can only shuttle between the ins and outs of the TIMELINE clip, not the margin of whats in teh bin) line up the time codes from what i had on my video, in-and-out mark it and drag the audio down to the timeline...THEY DONT MATCH UP!!!
^(this might be hard to understand, its the best I can describe it, if you have tried something similar OR worked in - especially old autodesk EDIT - you understand getting the time code from the source viewer and matching up audio from the the bins to the video, etc...Man I miss old Edit 6.0 alot!)
In EDIT and Avid, BOTH of the video and audio tracks CLEARLY were marked with their OWN timecodes, so you cuold play with them separately and make SURE they were still lined up. E.G. inserting B-Roll in the video track, and on the othr side of the B-Roll on the video and audio tracks, time code numbers appear next to timeline clip Picons, so you can make sure the numbers match!
Seriously, do editors design the software or just computer programmers!
I miss the days of Avid and Edit. Not that I'm complaining, my AXIO LE system performs absolutely flawlessly and exTREMELY fast with my adobe software!
Awaiting the new Matrox Axio LE drivers for the end of feruary to install ProdPrem CS4, exicted!
If anyone can let me know easy ways to cure my timecode blues - lets hear it!!!
I could probably stripe timecode onto a VHS (usually the clunky old format we use for internal review) with my old Panasonic 7510 and digi processor unit...but thats so much work for a windowdub!

Answer 1

Windowdubs are something I'm asked to create alot at my workplace, so the producer can go mull it over and give get back to me with a 'paper edit' using visible timecode (hour:min:sec:frame) that runs along the bottom of the whole pice. I cut trim insert etc...according to the generated running timecode on my VHS windowdub...Adobe doesnt easily place 'timeline timecode' over a while timeline (save for my work around), it can only place the effect on a clip to teh best of my knowledge.
It got really annoying before I found my work-around to place the timecode effect on everyclip and then WRITE IN the numbers corrsponding to the time on my timeline hashmarks, unless I'm completely attacking trying to turn on 'timeline timecode' the wrong way...
To clarify the second issue:
Imagine you place PART of a clip (the center few seconds of the total captured asset) on a timeline. Now after editing things, you come back to it and want to break out the stereo track to mono and fine tune the audio.
You go to the clip in the bin, break out to mono, and bring your tracks over to the video clip (delete the old stereo audio track laying there). The WHOLE clips audio come out of the bin in mono fashion. Good luck trying to trim down and line up the new whole-clip mono tracks with your video excerpt, because the timecodes of the video and audio tracks, when placed in your source viewer (which tells you time codes of clip ins and outs), will NOT line up. Try it. Maybe I have a defective software suite!
For instance if the video excerpt SOURCE time code is 01:02:30:00 to 01:02:45:00 (which you write down as reference on a sticky note in front of you!) and the whole captured clip in the bin is actually 01:02:00:00 to 01:03:00:00 it SHOULD be easy to replace the audio without replacing the video track.
So you go to break out the audio from the bin clip place the mono audio clips in the source viewer, and cycle through the "toggle take audio and video" button on the source viewer until you ONLY have the audio showing (signified by waveform in the viewer instead of black or video). Find 01:02:30:00 and mark an in on that audio track, now do the same for the outs 01:02:45:00, now bring the mono tracks down to the timeline and 'snap' inline with the corresponding video excerpt. Do your audio and video line up?
Better yet dont delete the old stereo track, and play the stereo and mono alongside, hear the ~5 second +/- vacinity delay?
On edit and Avid, in the corners of the clips on the timeline (both ends a.k.a. head/tail) little numbers for BOTH source and timeline timecode were written, so if you ever had to replace audio (or recapture audio only and replace audio - more likely if you captured with bad levels!) you could EASILY replace the audio!
Tell me for years on CS3 here I've been donig things wrong! Or is my software messed up?!?!
If you've never had the need to be concerned with timecode (home editing/weddings etc...) I can understand, but when making documentaries or working with a producer selecting clips its rediculous!