Audio Blips captured 6.0

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Audio Blips captured 6.0

Posted by Mark Moss on March 9, 2007 at 2:57 am

I am finding audio blips when I capture footage from my VCR. It sounds like digital distortion in some areas. I’ve listened to the master tape, and these glitches are not there. It happens in the transfer to Vegas. I’ve never had this problem before. It’s not the beeps that are present during demo mode, and it’s not predictable like the metronome.

I see someone has had a similar problem, but no one was able to answer.

Any ideas? I’ve tried capturing to another drive, to no avail.

Thanks for your help

Mark Moss replied 19 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Gary Kleiner
March 9, 2007 at 4:13 am

What are you using to transcode your analog source to digital?

Gary Kleiner

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http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
Mark Moss
March 9, 2007 at 4:34 am

I’m capturing from Mini DV / JVC SR-20 VCR.

I noticed that my hard drive definitely needs defragging. Do you think that could cause this problem?
Neil Moxham
March 9, 2007 at 5:33 am

Just so I understand…
the VCR analog “outs” go to mini dv camera analog “ins”
then firewire to computer ?
PLayback has audio beeps but no video dropout.

what happens if you import just from the mini DV camera’s tape.
Is it clean then.
It might be the “pass thru’s” converter losing sync.
Do you have the “Enable device control” unchecked in preferances?
Try another camera!
Is there any copyright protection stuff going on?

But I have done a pantload of importing and with very overdue defragged harddrives and never had a problem.
Of course defrag anyways, check again.
good luck
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Edward Troxel
March 9, 2007 at 2:27 pm

So… you’re capturing from a MiniDV tape instead of a VHS Tape – correct? If yes, what happens if you capture from the camera instead of the deck? It could be a head alignment issue with the deck or camera. When I start getting audio dropouts on my deck, I know the heads on the camera that recorded that tape are going out of alignment.

Edward Troxel
Mark Moss
March 10, 2007 at 5:36 pm

Bingo. That’s it. It must definitely be in either the deck or the camera. I recorded audio into Vegas from my mic, and no problems at all. I imported some CD audio, and no problems there as well.

Here’s the strange part… In playback of the tape that was recorded, the audio problem is not present.(At least it is not nearly as noticeable) The problem happens when I playback the same file once I captured on Vegas.

I’m going to try previously captured material, a different deck, etc, and see if I can locate the source of the problem.

Thanks for helping me sort this out.

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