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Audio dropout problem
Has anyone had a problem with audio dropouts with Vegas 5 (version a)?
The audio off the tape is okay, but occasionally I get dropouts on the timeline.
The video does not dropout. I can re-capture and the audio will be fine.
This is a really weird problem. -
6 Replies
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Sounds to me like a slight head alignment problem. Are you capturing from the same camera that recorded the tape? If not, try that next.
Edward Troxel
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I have the same problem sometimes when playing from the timeline. When I render out the final, though, the audio is fine. I’m fairly new to Vegas. Is this not typical behavior?
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What is your soundcard or audio device? It could be a driver issue or just a performance issue.
Marc Bowyer
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” Sounds to me like a slight head alignment problem …” There’s only one head (OK, two at 180-degrees so that one is always in contact with the tape)- it reads/writes the digital data in one pass. There is no separate audio head as in older analog decks. If there is a head alignment problem it would affect both audio and video. (In other words, the read/write head only sees bits and can’t differentiate audio, video or control data).
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While there may only be one head, the first indication to me that my camera’s head was going out of alignment was audio skipping when playing back on the deck (which didn’t happen using the OTHER camera’s tapes). The audio almost totally disappeared before the video started showing any effects. So, I’m just going by personal experience here. Audio dies first, video dies second is my experience. Playing back the “bad” tape on the “bad” camera produced fine results.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks everyone for your response!
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