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09-13-2004, 12:14 PM
I have two tapes that were shot on my DVX100 and when they are played back on my the camera they appear to have dropped frames every few seconds. What could be causing the problem?
Heres some more info:
The 2 tapes in question are Panasonic MQ. The "drop outs" occure repeatively in the same spot on both tapes. The first tape only has problems after aprox. 20min while the other tape has problems during the 1st few minutes and is fine after that. The drop outs occur at a regular pace (about 1 every 2 seconds). The drop outs look like huge digital artifacts and "tears" in the image and no audio seems to play back when this occurs.
Strangely if I play it back frame-by-frame every frame looks crystal clear. It seems to occur only at the regular play back speed which make me think its a problem with my play back head of my camera and not the record head or a bad tape. Yet at the same time Im noticing that the drop outs start to occur or not occur in the same exact sections of the tape which makes you think the opposite and that its a issue with how it was recorded to tape. I tried using Panasonic's head cleaner tape and then tried the tape again but no change. Also when I put in a tape that has worked in the past it still works fine. After all of this occured I also tried test recording something on the same exact tape for a few moments and played it back on the camera and it worked fine too.
Im going to play the two tapes back in someone elses deck today and see if its strickly a playback issue with my camera. I cant seem to figure out whats wrong. Can someone HELP ME?
If worse comes to worse is there a way to automatically capture from tape frame by frame with Premiere, Vegas or FCP? If so then I can drag the group of images to the timeline and it should reconstruct the video (minus the audio). Other than that what about professional tape restoration services?
Considering ALL that I have tried what do you think the issue is?
Heres some more info:
The 2 tapes in question are Panasonic MQ. The "drop outs" occure repeatively in the same spot on both tapes. The first tape only has problems after aprox. 20min while the other tape has problems during the 1st few minutes and is fine after that. The drop outs occur at a regular pace (about 1 every 2 seconds). The drop outs look like huge digital artifacts and "tears" in the image and no audio seems to play back when this occurs.
Strangely if I play it back frame-by-frame every frame looks crystal clear. It seems to occur only at the regular play back speed which make me think its a problem with my play back head of my camera and not the record head or a bad tape. Yet at the same time Im noticing that the drop outs start to occur or not occur in the same exact sections of the tape which makes you think the opposite and that its a issue with how it was recorded to tape. I tried using Panasonic's head cleaner tape and then tried the tape again but no change. Also when I put in a tape that has worked in the past it still works fine. After all of this occured I also tried test recording something on the same exact tape for a few moments and played it back on the camera and it worked fine too.
Im going to play the two tapes back in someone elses deck today and see if its strickly a playback issue with my camera. I cant seem to figure out whats wrong. Can someone HELP ME?
If worse comes to worse is there a way to automatically capture from tape frame by frame with Premiere, Vegas or FCP? If so then I can drag the group of images to the timeline and it should reconstruct the video (minus the audio). Other than that what about professional tape restoration services?
Considering ALL that I have tried what do you think the issue is?