It is very important to stripe your tapes before shooting because if you don't you will create timecode jumps on the tape wich will makes it hard or impossible for final cut or the AVID to redigitise your footage.

These timecodebreaks happen when you're shooting and then rewind to watch something back.

The solution is to simply record timecode on every blank tape before you go out to shoot.

You do this by recording every tape from beginning to end in the camera with the lenscover on (so that you record black)

The trick is that on dv-cam and mini-dv, timecode can only be recorded once.

so no matter what you do and how many gaps you leave, the timecode will be uninterrupted.