DV to PC capture question

BeToPR wrote on 1/19/2005, 9:10 PM
Hi people

i have a Canon XL1 camera wich i use for my main projects also i have
a Canon ZR80 wich i use to tranfer the video to the PC because i dont
want to use too much the live of the XL1 the problem is when i capture
the video from the ZR80 to the PC in most cases the final avi in the PC
get some particles here and there some times 1 frame but others upto
5 frames (wich i cant cut or the video looks like a jump) ok when capturing
i cant see these errors in the preview screen only in the final avi is this
a camera problem or a software problem sometime the video gets cut
out like in 4 left to right stripes separated and also that i dont see in the
preview screen of Vega 5 i need help to identify the source of the problem
(Camera, Software, Tapes, FirewireCable) if any one had this and fixed it
please help me out ill appreciate it TIA.

PS.
i know its not the use of 2 defferent cameras because if i see the tape
directly on the TV with both cameras the results are the same with
the video but not if transfered to PC via firewire.

Comments

musman wrote on 1/19/2005, 9:46 PM
Hate to be a jackass, but please try to use punctuation. Dyslexia boy had to read that post several times to follow you.
But, you've got me on this one. The next step would be to test the tape on a different computer, into a firewire enabled TV (pretty hard to find), or bite the bullet and use the xl1 once just to check. From what I've heard, it's really using a camera to do batch capturing, with all it's FF and rewinding, that wears on the heads.
I've never heard of a firewire cable being the issue, but maybe you could borrow a different one from a friend.
Hate it when this kind of thing happens and best of luck with it!
jaegersing wrote on 1/19/2005, 9:51 PM
The particles sound like tape dropouts, but I have heard that playing tapes back on a different tape machine will also give this result sometimes. You could try recapturing a short section that shows the particles and see if it is consistent. If it is, it is most likely tape dropouts, but you can try recapturing the same scene when playing from the XL1 to confirm.

The stripes may mean that you need to clean the heads of one of your cameras. It is probably faster to run a cleaning tape through both than to figure out which one.

Richard Hunter
scifly2 wrote on 1/19/2005, 9:57 PM
Hello! sounds like your describing the problem i comented on yesterday. I attributed it to playing tape on a different camera. Was not a different speed , audio res. or anything like that. Is there a such thing as a tracking problem like VHS? anyone?