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Audio drop out on capture
Did a capture now of 3 tapes. As I’m breaking them up into subclips, I’m hearing drop outs at various points. Some parts have more drop outs than others. Each one is only a few frames. The tapes themselves sound fine, levels look good. I’ve tried recapturing them a couple of times but the problem persists. It seems the dropouts recur in the same place. FWIW I’m monitoring in the viewer. I did also bring it into the Timeline and did a mixdown. No difference
Dual 450
1 gig ram
FCP 3.04
OS 10.4.8
Quick Time Pro 7.1.3Kinda ancient system I know, but never had this issue till now.
Thanks
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3 Replies
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Do the tapes play back ok straight to monitoring?
If they do not play back properly, the problem is on the tapes. You are out of luck.
If they do play back properly straight to monitoring, then…
If you are capturing to the system drive, try a dedicated media drive.
If that doesn’t work…
Beg or borrow an alternative playback devise, and capture using it.
If that doesn’t work…
Beg or borrow a different fcp system and try a capure using this system
I realize you may not know anyone with another system, if not the next step would be…
Dub the bad sections of tape from one DV deck to another. Then try a capture.
Good luck.
Tom
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Tom
Thanks for your reply. Tapes are fine on play back to monitoring. I’ve tried capturing to 2 different dedicated Media drives, same result.
I’ve also contemplated all of your other suggestions so good to know my thinking is in the right direction.
A post I read in another forum regarding someone else’s similiar dropout problem, suggested that the signal/data on the tape was “strong enough” for playback but not for capture.
Does that make sense to you?
Same post suggested the root of the problem could lie either in the tapes or in a dirty/clogged head issue on my camera. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks again
Jordan
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I would try dubbing the trouble areas to a fresh tape and see if the problem persists.
Good luck!
Tom
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