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redigitizing footage that has drop out
I have a lot of clips with drop out. Is it possible that the source tape does not have dropout in those spots? If so, then I want to take a look and possibly redigitize. What are the steps to do so? Is there a way to do it where I wouldn’t lose or write over the existing clips? (Overwriting anything makes me nervous because it would throw off existing drafts if the re-digitized footage was off by so much as a frame.) Thanks.
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Victoria,
The best thing to do is delete the MEDIA of the clips with dropouts or select the clips and use the MAKE OFFLINE feature. Tthis takes them off line. You can also jsut select the clips and use RECAPTURE.
Thes best thing to do is capture with a PVW 2600 Deck or better as these decks have built in DROP OUT compensators built in. The UVW series decks do not have this so tapes often have a lot of drop outs when it comes to these decks.
The best deck to use is a DVW-A500 deck. It is a Digital Betacam deck with Betacam SP playback capability and has the best dropout compensator on the market. You can rent that deck for about 750 a day and recapture using that. It will save you a lot of time compared to fixing individual dropouts (painstaking work).
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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David gave a very fine answer assuming your footage was shot on BetaCam SP.
Was it?
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David, Thanks. I am working with mini DV (to answer Matte’s question). I have the Sony GVD300 deck. (I have had it for a bunch of years now.) This is an art project that I am doing on my own and currently the budget is pretty snug. I want to see what I can do with the equipment I have. However, should I want to go further, are any of the decks you mentioned for this format?
So to the task at hand: I chose a clip with drop out. I disconnected it. Now what step(s) do I take to capture it again?
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No Matte, I shot it on miniDV. I just posted a further question to David re redigitizing. (I am a real beginner, as you will see if you look at my post.)
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Victoria,
Can you recapture via firewire on a camera? Maybe borrow one from a friend. It looks like that deck does not have a firewire output.
Suggestion.
Borrow a firewire camera from a friend.
Hook it up.
Load your tape
Go to easy set up and select DV NTSC 48K preset.
Go to the offline clips in the browser and select them.
Right click or hold down the control key on the selcted clips and select BATCH capture.
OR
Open the log and capture window APPLE KEY 8
Select all of the offline clips in the broswer
Go back to the capture window and click on BATCH.cheers,
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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David,
The deck works so fortunately I don’t have to borrow a camera. I’ll do this on Friday and let you know how it goes. Thanks. Have a happy T-day.
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The reason David said to use another device (other than the deck) to re-capture is that different units can play the same tape differently.
As in, if a given tape plays with a visible drop-out on one unit, that same area on the tape might play just fine on another unit (camcorder or deck).
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Hi David. I redigitized a clip with one or two frames of drop out and what I feared might happen did indeed happen: There is more drop out on the newly digitized clip than the old one. Wednesday when I checked this section on the tape it looked good. Today I check the tape after I did the redigitizing and there was all the drop out that appeared on the redigitized clip. I guess it must have happened while the tape was queing up. Is DV this unstable? I was working off a clone of my master tape. The clone is only a month or two old. (The master is pretty old now, almost five years.)
So going forward I want to come up with a system to redigitize my clips with drop out in a way that if the redigitized clip is worse than the original one, I can switch back. I guess the best way to do this is to note the in and out points of the clip, enter them into the log and capture window, capture it with a similar but not identical name. Would you agree?
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If it comes to redigitizing on another unit, what deck(s) do you recommend? (I don’t know which of the ones David suggested are for miniDV.) I have a Sony GVD300. It is probably five years old. Thanks.
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I would buy and run a head cleaning cassette through the deck. DV is pretty clean. A five year old tape (depending how it was stored) should look good.
I would also try to borrow another camera to make sure it is the tape and not the device.
You can get a cleaning cassette for about 10 bucks at BH or somewhere like that.
PS: I am a big fan of dance!
David
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