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Sync issue caused glitches on tape – need editing solution!
I am new to video editing and am working on some scenic footage (no audio) with serious glitches. When it was shot, there was a sync issue that caused a “warbling” effect to occur intermittently throughout the whole tape- usually a frame or two at a time is distorted so that during playback you’ll see a momentary “wiggle” or “jerk”. (The glitches are present on the tape – it’s not an issue caused by wrong sequence settings or capture settings in FCPro.)
While most editors would probably toss the whole tape, I absolutely have to come up with a solution to save this footage!
The only thing I can figure out in Final Cut Pro is to delete the frame with the glitch, copy the frame before the glitch and the frame after the glitch… and try to tweak these two frames until the playback is smoother. (probably a very archaic method?!)
Is there an easier/automated solution (plug-in? filter? software?) Any ideas that won’t take a thousand hours of tedious frame by frame editing?!?
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If you do that and there is motion in the shot, then you will have a really obvious effect. Much better is if you just delete those two frames and ripple edit.
If there is motion there will be a one frame glitch, not a three frame glitch which is what your solution will create.
There are plugins that correct drop outs by taking previous fields or frames. I am not sure that they will be quicker than manually doing it. Digital Heaven and CHV have such drop out corrector plugins.
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Michael, thanks so much for your advice! I tried CHV’s – Dropout eliminator Plug-in for FCPro, like you suggested. The plug-in helped on scenes were there was little motion, however on fast moving areas or zoom, my best efforts with this plug-in still result in what looks like a dropped frame – while this is an improvement over the original glitch, it’s still noticeable during playback…
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Someone recently suggested that I look into a Time Base Corrector plug-in… Does anyone know of such a thing and where I can find one?!
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