Greetings! There was some discussion recently about cheap editing decks. I've just received a new JVC HR-DVS3U MiniDV/SVHS deck, and thought I'd share...
The deck works fine with Final Cut Pro (though I haven't tried 24p import yet). It seems to work fine with tapes it has recorded itself. But so far, on about two hours of imports from the DVX (MQ tapes, of course!), I've had numerous audio dropouts and two video glitches (sparklies). These glitches/dropouts are NOT repeatable - that is, playing the same section of tape does not result in the same glitches. For this reason, I was able to repair all the problems by re-importing "patches", but of course this is not convenient.
Does anyone have experience with this deck? Is there any chance this is a "startup" issue that will disappear? I bought the deck primarily for the ability to go from firewire direct to VHS, but thought it would be nice to use it as my editing deck as well...
-Barry
The deck works fine with Final Cut Pro (though I haven't tried 24p import yet). It seems to work fine with tapes it has recorded itself. But so far, on about two hours of imports from the DVX (MQ tapes, of course!), I've had numerous audio dropouts and two video glitches (sparklies). These glitches/dropouts are NOT repeatable - that is, playing the same section of tape does not result in the same glitches. For this reason, I was able to repair all the problems by re-importing "patches", but of course this is not convenient.
Does anyone have experience with this deck? Is there any chance this is a "startup" issue that will disappear? I bought the deck primarily for the ability to go from firewire direct to VHS, but thought it would be nice to use it as my editing deck as well...
-Barry
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