Glitchy video repair

ChipGallo wrote on 9/8/2005, 7:01 AM
I recently shot a 60 minute ice skating show and asked a second camera person to help. I gave him two of my tapes (Sony DVM60EXL) which he used in his Panasonic camera.

When I played his tapes back on my Sony DCR-TRV900, there was image tearing and audio dropout throughout both tapes. They also exhibited this on a Sony DSR-25 DVCAM deck. Finally they played on a JVC SR-VS30U super vhs/mini dv deck with reduced image breakup.

Now I am near the end of my edit using Vegas 6 and the VASST multicam script. I'm looking for some way to reduce the occasional glitchiness of the Panasonic shots. What I believe happened is that the lube on the Sony tape disagreed with whatever lube was already on the tape path, causing the tape to feed erratically. Just a theory. Any ideas on cleanup would be appreciated.

Chip Gallo

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/8/2005, 7:21 AM
Chip, can you post a screen shot? Are they "sparklie" dropouts, or actual checkerboard smears, or horizontal bands? Duration of them?

You can often take a preceding and postceding frame and repair it that way, but if it's going over several frames, that won't work.
ChipGallo wrote on 9/8/2005, 7:31 AM
I can post a screen shot when I get home tonight. I am fairly sure the breakup extends to more than one frame. Usually it is a jagged tear but sometimes it looks like black dropout, not sparkles. The black spots have essentially disappeared after transferring to computer.

Interesting side note, the other videographer had to thoroughly clean his heads before his camera was useable again for his regular work.

Chip
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/8/2005, 9:27 AM
> Interesting side note, the other videographer had to thoroughly clean his heads before his camera was useable again for his regular work.

Actually, that was almost predictable. Sony uses wet lubricant while Panasonic, Fujuifilm, etc. use dry lubricant. You should NEVER mix tapes that use different lubricants. You might want to let your friend know that he should never let anyone put a tape in his camera other than the ones he uses, and he should stick to one brand just to be safe.

~jr