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Capturing 24p footage has audio dropouts. Help!
I just shot a scene on a borrowed Panasonic camera with the 24p function turned on. It played back fine on the camera and on my GL-1. I am using my GL-1 to capture the shots into Vegas and I keep getting little sound dropouts in the playback on the computer while capturing, and they are still there when I play back the files.
Is there something special I need to do for capturing 24p footage? A special setting maybe? Do I need to get the Panasonic camera from my friend again to capture? Everything shot on the GL-1 captured fine before. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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[psychicflyingmonkey] “Is there something special I need to do for capturing 24p footage?”
Probably capturing from the original camera would solve the problem. I’m guessing a slight head alignment difference between the two cameras.
Edward Troxel
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I might just be a little paranoid about this, but I have never played anyone else’s tapes in my camera (VX2100) and won’t unless they used a Sony Excellence tape. I have read too many posts about always using the SAME tape (brand/model) throughout the life of your camera. Has to do with the different types of lubrication the manufactures use. Cheaper cameras might not be that big of a deal (I don’t mind playing other tapes in my Digital-8), but with the cameras you mentioned I would be leary of playing different brands of tapes…that is unless you’ve already made a practice of using different types of tapes in your camera. Supposedly it can clog your heads very fast using different tapes.
When someone asks me to edit their tape I always request their camera to transfer it from unless the tape is a Sony Excellence (not necessarily better, just what I started using in the camera when it was new). In fact, this just happened to me a couple of weeks ago. When I saw that their tape was a maxell I asked for their camera. Transfer went fine…and had another satisfied customer.
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