• VEGAS Pro

  Automated “Glitch” finder

  Posted by Richard Swain on December 8, 2005 at 6:21 pm

  Hi All,
  I transfer VHS tapes into Vegas. Sometimes there are drop-outs on the tape which produce “glitches” in the resulting .AVI file. I’m looking for something that will find those glitches. This could be either a plug-in for Vegas or some stand-alone software. Does anyone know of something likt this?

  Richard
  Basket Cat Productions

  Chris Young replied 20 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  December 8, 2005 at 6:57 pm

  Push play and watch the screen.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Richard Swain

  December 8, 2005 at 9:03 pm

  I guess you have nothing better to do than watch TV all day!

  Richard
  Basket Cat Productions
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  Edward Troxel

  December 8, 2005 at 10:03 pm

  Seriously, I really don’t know of a way – in Vegas – to automate that process. In fact, I don’t know of a way outside of Vegas to do it but can’t say there isn’t one.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Chris Young

  December 10, 2005 at 12:07 pm

  I don’t know of any specific equipment that will do this with VHS, some of the broadcast formats yes. Depending on how bad these ‘glitches’ are I would suggest trying to get hold of a good TBC (timebase corrector) with a full frame DOC (drop out compensator), or a ‘pro’ S-VHS deck with internal TBC. Run you VHS tapes through the TBC or out of the pro deck and digitize. If the errors aren’t massive you may be able sort the problem out this way and produce avi files that are suitable for use.

  Chris Young
  CYV Productions
  Sydney

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