Sounds issues upon capture

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ArtsnFartsNCrafts

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Not sure what's up, but I had 2 tapes worth of footage. When I watch the tapes on my camera, I get no sound issues.

Tape A captured fine, no problems.

For some reason, when I capture Tape B, I get these odd little "popping" or "clicking" sounds here and there in the audio track. It's very strange, and a little bit annoying!

Anyone else experience this? And is there any way around it? I cleaned the heads on my cam, and am re-capturing (at home...I'm at work right now) as I type this. Fingers crossed that it won't come through again, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I try to make sure that there aren't too many processes running that may interfere with the capture, also...
 
Do you have a Creative sound card? Those drivers would cause popping now and then. They don't carry through to renders; the problem isn't in the footage.
 
They won't stay there upon rendering, even if I can see them in the audio track as little spikes in the sound? (they literally look like tiny little lines or whiskers in the audio track).
 
Well, in that case, they might be in the audio track itself.

How did your second capture go? Are you SURE it's not there when you just play the tape?
 
Pretty sure. I could hook it up to my TV to be sure...but I'm pretty sure it's something capture related.

I read somewhere that defragging the hard drive could take care of it...i did that this morning before I restarted the capture.

I might even go so far as capturing it in some other program, then importing it into vegas...that's just kind of a pain.
 
I've since discovered that the popping is only in the right channel of the audio. Is there any way to capture only the left audio channel, then simply pan it 50% to the right, so that that channel is heard in both speakers?
 
No, but you can right-click on the audio track and choose Channels>Left Only.

If the problem's only the right channel, that's probably not a capture issue.
 
So I took the tape out of the camera I was using for capture (Panasonic PVGS120), and tried capturing it in my DVX (which I do NOT like doing)....I'll need to take a closer look when I get time..but it looks like I've got no sound issues, now.

HOWEVER: This time, I captured with vegas using the DVX100, and while it reported the number of dropped frames as 0, it gave me a warning that there were dropped frames...which is odd...I did a quick glance, and I didn't see them (though they can be tough to see sometimes, I guess).
 
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