Dropped a tape, now full of artifacts

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Paunch

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Yes I did the one thing you shouldn't and dropped a tape which seems to have caused some pretty bad artifacts throughout the entire tape. To make matters worse it's from a wedding that i''m being paid to edit and pretty much contains all the back angle stuff from the ceremony.

can this tape be salvaged?

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yah dropping of tape woudlnt cause it... most likely a dirty head and some crud on the film will do that.
 
What exactly do you mean "pretty bad artifacts throughout"??

I agree that dropping a tape shouldn't affect the footage... unless of course the tape shattered.
 
well, it has big blocky shifty glitches on the left side of frame....and every few seconds in the middle as well, but predominately on the left side....


my main concern is if I was the cause of this, it's an edit for a company that does wedding videos, i just don't want to be the reason that this video is screwed up....a person at creative cow said this...

"by jon agnew on Apr 6, 2008 at 2:42:37 pm
Unfortunately, dropping the tape can definitely damage it. As far as I know, there is no way to salvage the footage. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Sometimes you get lucky, other times..."

But of course it doens't make a whole lot of sense and digital information can't be ruined from sheer shock, the tape is 100% fine and in tact.

I heard that certain decks might actually be able to capture the footage correctly, perhaps at a dub house or something.

"See if you can locate a SONY DSR-2000 DVCAM deck. It has a function that allows it to play damaged tapes. I saw a demo at NAB about 5 or 6 years ago where they took a wrinkled tape that would not play in anything else because of numerous problems but it played perfectly in the 2000"

here's a link to the stills, CLEAN

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/42/53/599450431/n599450431_517386_5576.jpg

GLITCH http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/42/53/599450431/n599450431_517393_9681.jpg

GLITCH 2 http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/42/53/599450431/n599450431_517387_969.jpg

Anyways, thanks for the input, I'll try to direct the blame away from me and keep on keeping on.
 
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I would say that dirty heads would be your problem.

Try a DSR-2000 deck. It may work. I guess it would depend on how bad the damage is.

Worst case is you have to refund the couple their money.

Either way go and get your heads cleaned on your camera. It shouuld be done every couple of hundred hours.
 
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