Hi8 digitizing jitter.

nsbma wrote on 8/6/2013, 10:22 PM

I started to digitize my old Hi8 tapes. Some of the resulted video has big horizontal jitter even if I use time base corrector. Is it any way to improve the video using Vegas Pro 12 or other software?

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nsbma wrote on 8/8/2013, 10:47 PM

I captured entire tape of 93 minutes. Sometimes jitter may came back for a couple of minutes - but it is not so big as before. When I stop playback in unstable place and continue, the jitter may decrease for some time, but then appears again. The frequency of the "choppiness" of the left side of a frame is well below 25 Hz - so probably because of it TBC is less effective on this parts of the tape. Definitely my camcorder and TBC work not bad, but 17 years old tapes have some defect places. Anyway, the improvement is very significant.

nsbma wrote on 8/10/2013, 3:39 PM

Futher experiments shows that in case of tape defects camcoder heating has bad effect in reading defected parts. So it is necessary after each 30-40 minutes wait 2 hours untill camcorder will be cold again, or do it in more cold place of the house - mabe in the outumn.