“Blackouts” in VHS > FCPX transfer… advice needed!

[Matthew Slaughter]

Just a follow-up to let you know that I picked up an ES10 and have started the transfer process again. There are no MPEG artifacts and the unit does indeed appear to be simply allowing my video to passthrough its analog pathways with the benefit of very generous timebase correction – ie just about *everything* is coming through now.

I have done some direct comparison of footage from the same tape transferred with and without the ES10 in the pathway and there may be some very, very slight softening of the image but it’s really hard to tell with the quality of footage I am dealing with, so essentially I am relieved.

Best $50 I have spent for a long time.