I just got back from a four month documentary shoot. Sat down to screen tapes with my team using my TV. the camera was connected using new RCA cable. The footage looks terrible, it's choppy, looks like a frames are being dropped. All the footage was filmed in 24p mode (not advanced 24p). Starting to wonder if the DVX is worth it as the choppy playback coupled with hundreds of timcode breaks has made post a nightmare..... Thanks for any input!
Really Choppy Playback on TV
- Thread starter bnm97
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BLUESPIDER
DVXuser Ninja
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
Does this happen to all your tapes when you playback? Or is it just one tape in particular? "I just got back from a four month shoot." where did exactally did you go? Just hope it wasn't anywhere humid or dusty.
Does this happen to all your tapes when you playback? Or is it just one tape in particular? "I just got back from a four month shoot." where did exactally did you go? Just hope it wasn't anywhere humid or dusty.
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
thanks so much for geting back to me. I was in Mauritius, an island in the indian ocean. It was hot and at times humid, but not rainforest humid. It happens with all our tapes. However when I played them back on a PAL TV everything looked fine. I've heard that it might have to do with the pull-down which i have only a basic understanding of. Thanks again for getting back to me. have 40 hours of footage so I'm rather nervous about all this.
thanks so much for geting back to me. I was in Mauritius, an island in the indian ocean. It was hot and at times humid, but not rainforest humid. It happens with all our tapes. However when I played them back on a PAL TV everything looked fine. I've heard that it might have to do with the pull-down which i have only a basic understanding of. Thanks again for getting back to me. have 40 hours of footage so I'm rather nervous about all this.
pookie_old
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
A foolish question, but is the camera a PAL, as you say it played back fine on a PAL TV.
Are you now viewing on an NTSC TV (in the States)?
A foolish question, but is the camera a PAL, as you say it played back fine on a PAL TV.
Are you now viewing on an NTSC TV (in the States)?
scharky
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
Definitly sounds like a PAL camera, as NTSC played on a PAL TV will display those types of results. And heck, if it plays back fine on PAL then that should tell you right there. Look in the scene file settings, make sure that it actually says 24p and not 25p.
Definitly sounds like a PAL camera, as NTSC played on a PAL TV will display those types of results. And heck, if it plays back fine on PAL then that should tell you right there. Look in the scene file settings, make sure that it actually says 24p and not 25p.
BLUESPIDER
DVXuser Ninja
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
bnm97,
I think you might of answerd your own question.
bnm97,
I think you might of answerd your own question.
pookie_old
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
If it's NTSC, you should not be able to "play back on a PAL TV [and] everything looked fine".
It doesn't work like that.
If it's NTSC, you should not be able to "play back on a PAL TV [and] everything looked fine".
It doesn't work like that.
Kirk Gillock
Rebel with a cause
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
This may throw a wrench is this topic - I live in PAL world and have 2 PAL tv's. My NTSC camera (purchased in the US last Oct.) plays video back perfectly on the PAL tv's. Screwy, huh? Is it possible that some tv's are able to recognize both signals?
This may throw a wrench is this topic - I live in PAL world and have 2 PAL tv's. My NTSC camera (purchased in the US last Oct.) plays video back perfectly on the PAL tv's. Screwy, huh? Is it possible that some tv's are able to recognize both signals?
pookie_old
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
Well, if it plays back on a PAL system, edit it as PAL using PAL editing software.
Then convert to NTSC if thats what you need.
Simple.
Well, if it plays back on a PAL system, edit it as PAL using PAL editing software.
Then convert to NTSC if thats what you need.
Simple.
XCheck
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
[quote author=Neil R. link=board=Events;num=1107286782;start=0#11 date=02/02/05 at 12:19:09]sure, alot of video/broadcast stuff can do either NTSC or PAL.[/quote]It always gets me when I go back to Europe that pretty much any VHS player on the market will play PAL/SECAM/NTSC no problem. (When will the French switch to PAL?)
Last time I needed something like that, I had to shell out $700 Canadian for a crappy Samsung VCR that would do the same.
However, I AM going to get the Panasonic DV deck (http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...d=14596&modelNo=AG-DV2500&surfModel=AG-DV2500) cuz it plays both NTSC and PAL, plus I don't want to wreck my DVX with capturing and I am getting tired of dropped frames when I capture footage through my old Canon Optura.
[quote author=Neil R. link=board=Events;num=1107286782;start=0#11 date=02/02/05 at 12:19:09]sure, alot of video/broadcast stuff can do either NTSC or PAL.[/quote]It always gets me when I go back to Europe that pretty much any VHS player on the market will play PAL/SECAM/NTSC no problem. (When will the French switch to PAL?)
Last time I needed something like that, I had to shell out $700 Canadian for a crappy Samsung VCR that would do the same.
However, I AM going to get the Panasonic DV deck (http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...d=14596&modelNo=AG-DV2500&surfModel=AG-DV2500) cuz it plays both NTSC and PAL, plus I don't want to wreck my DVX with capturing and I am getting tired of dropped frames when I capture footage through my old Canon Optura.
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
OK...so I know for sure it's not a PAL camera. I actually got the footage to play normaly on my NTSC TV. To do so I brought footage into FCP from a a few of my tapes and than output the footage to a new DV tape. When I played this tape on my TV everything looked fine, but again when I paly the master tapes via S-Video or RCA cables it looks like it's dropping frames and very choppy. I don't get it. Has anybody had this problem??? Thanks, B
OK...so I know for sure it's not a PAL camera. I actually got the footage to play normaly on my NTSC TV. To do so I brought footage into FCP from a a few of my tapes and than output the footage to a new DV tape. When I played this tape on my TV everything looked fine, but again when I paly the master tapes via S-Video or RCA cables it looks like it's dropping frames and very choppy. I don't get it. Has anybody had this problem??? Thanks, B
pookie_old
Veteran
Re: Really Choppy Playback on TV
Try doing a pass through from FCP, firewire to the DVX, out to the TV via a cable.
You can eliminate, or zero in if the heads are the problem.
In otherwords, no tape in the camera.
Try doing a pass through from FCP, firewire to the DVX, out to the TV via a cable.
You can eliminate, or zero in if the heads are the problem.
In otherwords, no tape in the camera.