Im posting this for somebody i work with, so hopfully all my info is right..

there are two problems when captureing, screen shots can be seen at this url: http://www.newliferanch.com/folders.asp?action=display&record=102

the first problem is banding or stripping across the frame. from what i understand this is usually a camera problem (heads?)

the second is a little more complicated, the frame is simply jumbled, if a clip has this problem and is then recaptured it will be correct.

both problems only show up occasionaly, most of the time everything works great, so really its not a big deal, unless it happens to ruin a clip you really need and is very hard to reproduce.

so...any thoughts on what might cause these particular problems would be great, but i think what i am more interested in knowing is how to go about tracing down capture problems. it seems like there are so many variables im not sure where to start, or how to isolate individual variables and test them.

thanks for your help and thoughts.
ben