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Video distortion after capture
Hello! I hope someone can help!
I working with Avid Media Composer 4.0. I’m getting distortion and glitches in video while playing in the time line. I review the video on the tape and it’s clean. Only after I capture into Avid do I get this distortion and glitches. I’ve tried changing the video cables thinking it might be a bad cable, but I still get the same result. HELP!! I am WAY behind on purchased projects and this problem is costing me money!
Thank you to anyone who can help.
Denise Shelton
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4 Replies
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How are you capturing? What hardware are you using? What are your system specs? Can you describe the distortion?
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I’m going from a Sony PD170 video camera to the computer using a 4 to 6 pin IEEE cable. The computer is a Dell Studio XPS 8000, Intel CPU, 2.80 GHz and 64-bit Operating system. The distortion looks like a tracking problem. Kind of looks like watching video through water. Seems to be more noticeable on footage with pans or subject movement, which made me think it may have happened during filming and is something in the camera. But when I play the footage on the camera, it looks fine, no distortion I can see.
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Here’s just a few ideas:
Try cleaning the PD170’s tape heads..if it’s glitches you’re seeing.The look you’re describing sounds like the camera’s digital effect “Trail”…but, I believe that can only be recorded to tape and not assigned to firewire output.
What format is your video footage? is it PAL? and are you working in NTSC mode? The PD170 will playback in a “quasi” PAL mode and will look fine on the camera’s LCD monitor. But if your Avid set-up is for NTSC, you may get some crazy effects…
Hope this helps.
Keith -
Check the output quality – there is a little button on the bottom left of the timeline. It should be full green, but may be all yellow or half and half. Just click on it until it turn green.
Jon
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman
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