Digitizing Disaster!

[shadoobee8]

Help!

I am now paying the price for using cheap tape stock.

I am trying to capture footage into FCP but the tape appears to be damaged. I'm not sure what is causing this but the tape appears to have developed time code breaks where im losing audio and video in quick hits about every 5 seconds or so. I have tried to change the setting to capture over timecode breaks but it doesnt help.

Can anything else be done?

Grandma and Grandpa are waiting for their video.

Thanks,
Justin

 

[Blaine]

Try recording the tape to another camera or deck. See if you can get a "clean" tape that way. (David Jimerson just recommended this in a thread for Vegas)

Here's the link:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=457009#post457009

 

[Geoff_Reisner]

Try using a different camera as well or clean the heads on the deck/cam that you are using currently. It might not be the tape at all, but bad or dirty heads.