• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Tapes not reading data…

  Posted by Matt Hannon on May 15, 2011 at 1:22 pm

  Hi,

  I’ve just returned from a trip to Indonesia, whereby I did some filming in the jungle as well as beaches.

  I have already captured 99% of the 23 hours that I shot whilst over there, but there is one tape which for some reason or another, cannot be read when trying to capture?!

  I have tried capturing on several different cameras, as well as a deck… none of them are reading it? Its not even reading any timecode??

  I know there is footage on there, as I labelled the tape.

  I am also experiencing this ‘data loss’ for shorter periods on other tapes, same thing happens whereby the timecode disappears also.

  The tapes I used were JVC ProHD 63 min.

  Any ideas/previous experience would be greatly appreciated.

  thanks

  Matt Hannon replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bret Williams

  May 15, 2011 at 2:52 pm

  Sounds like dirty heads. Playback head if you’re lucky, but since it’s on all playback machines, it may have been record head in camera.
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  Matt Hannon

  May 16, 2011 at 4:58 am

  Thanks Bret,

  This did cross my mind and I have run a head cleaner, through to no avail.

  Will continue to research solutions… fingers crossed!!

  cheers,

  m

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