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  • 8mm Tape Clean-up Solutions?

    Posted by Stephen Hirsch on August 4, 2009 at 3:08 am

    Hi Everyone,

    I’m importing Sony MP120 8mm Video Cassettes into FCP 6 using a Sony Digital Handycam (DCR-TRV240).

    The tapes have a distortion that comes and goes – on the digital camera and capture it’s a pixellated blurry band accompanied by warped audio, and on the original 8mm camera and TV it’s a static band with warped audio. Since it’s in the same spots and on both cameras I think it’s pretty clear the problem is with the tapes.

    I was just wondering if FCP 6 or any of the programs in FC Studio 2 would offer a way of cleaning up or correcting these distortions on the tapes? Or if there is some other solution I should try?

    Nick Meyers replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Nick Meyers

    August 4, 2009 at 5:38 am

    i doubt very much anything will fix those problems.
    sounds like there’s too much info missing from your captures.

    some screen shots would help a lot.

    hopefully you will find a solution,
    but i’d say look elsewhere… maybe After Effects for the Image and ProTools for the sound??
    FCP doesn’t have the tools to do it.

    nick

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