XH A1 Capture Dropouts from Panasonic MQ tapes

[Don Greening]

[Miodrag Ristic] “althoug a friend of mine had similar
problems with his XL1s.”

That’s because the GL2 and the XL1S share the same tape transport system. The XL2 has a different and hopefully improved tape transport mechanism.

– Don

[Miodrag Ristic]

There you go…

Thanks Don.

Mick

[Gary Bain]

I have read this thread with great interest. I have been using Sony tapes and only have one instance of dropout over the use of about 7 tapes. I also purchased a Sony GV-HD700 as the workhorse to playback tapes. The price was about $1100. It has thus far performed flawlessly in conjunction with my Adobe CS3 software. I hope this is not a mistake as it seemed much cheaper than another camera. I am using the Canon XHA-1 as my camera for acquiring source footage.

[Benny Lee]

I also have three XH G1 and have been using Panasonic tapes, SQ, PQ, MQ, I even used the Sony DVM63. All of them have dropout problem. The problem is worse by the time and at the result the footage was divided into 10 sections. I have try to put the same tape to another G1 but it still exists. Then I played the tape on every G1 and it clearly showed that aroung 1 seconds was missing. I have took the cameras to Canon but the problem still can’t be solved. They have no idea how to solve it. Something must be related to the recording mechanism because I normally uses the HD/SDI to output to the ENG and record on my Macbook Pro. The pictures were fine. No dropouts. But it remains on the tapes.