I have some glitchy stuff in my clips in v 8.0c

wm_b wrote on 5/4/2009, 2:53 PM

The camera is a Panasonic SDR-H40p. The video looks fine in the camera but the clips are kind of glitchy in places once on the timeline. I believe camera is using some kind of mpeg format. This is my first time with clips from this camera and my first time with this type of trouble. Any ideas?

Thanks, William

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UlfLaursen wrote on 5/4/2009, 9:16 PM

Hi William

I think you need to describe it a little more detailed than this.

Have you tried to render anything from it and watched that result? Maybe your problems is only on the timeline?

/Ulf

wm_b wrote on 5/5/2009, 12:13 PM

Strangely, the glitches which look pretty bad in Preview/Auto are completely gone when the preview is set to Best/Full. I pre-rendered to a new track and not to dynamic ram. I got up and poured a cup of coffee while it was rendering. Had I stayed I probably would have seen the clean playback during that stage. It's the first time I've had a problem like that but then it's not my camera and I didn't shoot it.

Thanks for the reply.

Cheers, Wm.

wm_b wrote on 5/6/2009, 1:52 PM

I spoke too soon. The final render had the glitch. It's exactly what it sounds like. A pixelated area of a persons face while he is speaking. Still looks fine in the camera. The defect is there every time. Not really sure what to do.

Porpoise1954 wrote on 5/7/2009, 12:23 AM

This sounds like it could be a condensation issue. Have you tried recapturing from the tape. I have occasionally come across this when I've not left the camera and tape long enough to get to the ambient temperature before capturing. Trying again later has always cured the pixellation you describe.

Of course, it could still be something entirely different in this case but that would always be my first thought.

wm_b wrote on 5/7/2009, 2:13 AM

the camera is a hard disk type. no tape. It uses pixela to get the files off the camera. I'm working on this for my sister. She just sent me the files. She sees the same thing on her end too though. I'm wondering if there is something happening in the pixela software, if there is some kind of conversion or transcoding happening.

megabit wrote on 5/7/2009, 2:29 AM

"the camera is a hard disk type"

Interestingly, back when I was using the DR-60 drive with my V1E, it happened to me as well - a couple of clips pixelated for a split second.... This almost never happens with tape - any glitch, and at least 0.5 seconds is gone!

I never resolved this mystery; now with the EX files I never came across it again.

farss wrote on 5/7/2009, 4:09 AM

I'd question the "Don't see it in the camera" part to some extent.
As another EX1 owner I'm still being amazed at how different the images can look in different monitors and from the various camera outputs.
That said more than once with DV tape I've had bad audio glitches that were cured only by playing the tape back in a VCR and capturing the analogue output from that, go figure.

Bob.