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digitizing old vhs
Im digitizing an old vhs tape. I set the project up as 8-bit uncompressed. I am using fcp 6.0.6 dual core g5. The video loses sync with the audio almost from the first frame. It drifts and I dont know why. Any ideas.
Thanks, Bill
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What kind of capture card are you using?
Stephan
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You need a Time Base Corrector. There is a cheap one at Markertek.
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As Chris just mentioned, you need a TBC in order to run the VHS directly into an FCP system unless you have something like a Canopus ADVC-100 which can sometimes work and have the footage in sync.
What we do here is dub the VHS to BetaSP via our Sony UVW-1800 and then capture from that tape into the FCP system. This works every time.
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A TBC will NOT keep the audio from drifting out of sync on captured files, thats a function of the codec in use during capture. The codec in use is determined by the input device. going through a Canon camera or lower end digital convertor box is likely to create audio at a nonstandard DV rate. Methods for correcting that have been dealt with around here for years. Coming through a Sony DV camera should create an absolutely synced audio and video clip.
All a TBC will do stabilize the VHS signal’s head switching errors and, if so equipped, provide some drop out compensation and proc amp adjustments.
We dub our old VHS to DVCAM and capture the DV. But most of our old 3/4″ is useless because the oxide sheds from the base.
bogiesan
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…you may have to scale the vhs footage in fcp to l10 percent to get rid of the scan lines. Good luck.
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I managed to do this quite successfully by running the composite video and audio through a Sony DSR-11 and importing via “capture now” in FCP. The quality didn’t really seem to deteriorate from the VHS quality in the process. The certainly weren’t any lip sink problems as there were a lot of interviews.
This was purely to get some editable footage for a sample showreel for my partner who is a producer, and having some footage on her showreel of some very famous people seems to psychologically enhance the poor technical quality of the video.
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