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bad caps in V4 and V5
An occasional problem with video capture has gotten worse.
I’m batting about 50%, half my captures look like this.
I’m capturing my PD150 event video from a DSR-20, and no problems for some tapes. The “bad” tapes seem to be OK when recaptured.
It wouldn’t be so much of a problem but usually I don’t find the problem until I’ve capped a 1-hour tape. Same performance in both V4 and V5 (most current versions of each).
Ideas?
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5 Replies
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May be dirty heads – have you tried running cleaning tape?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
When I have had this problem, it has been resolved by capturing with the same camera used to shoot the footage.
Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison -
Another thing to try. Only start capturing a few seconds into the tape! In other words, don’t use the “Capture Tape” feature. Instead, rewind the tape, start playback, wait about 5 seconds, and then hit capture.
Edward Troxel
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thanks everyone for the suggestions – heading out on the road this morning, but will try tonight.
Esp. headcleaning (duh). After all, progressivly worse, somewhat random, could easily be dirty heads. If so, I was somewhat mislead because monitoring of the analog outputs showed no problems.
Which raises another issue – I only shove TDK through my camera, but my studio deck mixes tdk and sony long load DVCAM. Perhaps the dreaded tape lubricant issue is involved…
Will advise tonight of any success.
Thanks, Seth
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thanks for all suggestions – at this point it may have been dirty heads, as the problem hasn’t recurred since running the cleaning tape.
I was thrown off the track by the good analog playback from the DSR-20, but it does make some sense that analog could be fine and firewire out cruddy. At least thats what I think until the problem comes back.
Thanks,
Seth
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