Been capturing more hours than I care to remember of sports tapes to go our on DVD. Anyway decided to have a break from that and work on a short video to be converted to NTSC DVD needed in a hurry.
Anyway this client had me do this job before but didn't realise he needed a NTSC DVD for his clients in the USA to be able to view it. Previously as his VCR was out of action he bought over his hard drive, plugged it into my system and we were away, DVD done in less than an hour. Only problem was in about two places we had some really bad judders in the video, almost like dropped frames and Vegas was none two happy about the audio. I wrote it off to some oddity in his ULead software and how it wrote the AVI file.
So this time he prints the thing to tape and I start capturing it on my new DSR-11.
Now tape looks and sounds just fine on my 'monitor' but monitoring the audio thru vidcap there are some bad dropouts and yes they're in the captured file. But here's the truly wierd bit, they're in the same spot as we had trouble with the AVI I'd loaded from the hard drive last time.
Now I can probably get around this by doing another capture of the sound track only from the audio o/ps of the VCR and recording into Vegas and patching the missing bits in, it's only a demo tape so 100% perfection isn't a high priority.
But what the heck is going on? It seems, OK, his rendered AVI file had something really odd in it, that 'oddity' made it into the tape and is somehow screwing up either Vidcap or the digital circuits in my VCR yet the data stream is good enough for the VCR to decode it and produce good audio and video on the analogue outputs.
Man this is wierd, only reason I'm sweating on this a bit is this is a new client who already has a good market for his product so an opportunity not to be missed. I promised him to fix up a few things he knows is wrong in his editing but this isn't making the job any easier and I really need to get to the bottom of it before he gives me the real stuff to work on.
Bob.
Anyway this client had me do this job before but didn't realise he needed a NTSC DVD for his clients in the USA to be able to view it. Previously as his VCR was out of action he bought over his hard drive, plugged it into my system and we were away, DVD done in less than an hour. Only problem was in about two places we had some really bad judders in the video, almost like dropped frames and Vegas was none two happy about the audio. I wrote it off to some oddity in his ULead software and how it wrote the AVI file.
So this time he prints the thing to tape and I start capturing it on my new DSR-11.
Now tape looks and sounds just fine on my 'monitor' but monitoring the audio thru vidcap there are some bad dropouts and yes they're in the captured file. But here's the truly wierd bit, they're in the same spot as we had trouble with the AVI I'd loaded from the hard drive last time.
Now I can probably get around this by doing another capture of the sound track only from the audio o/ps of the VCR and recording into Vegas and patching the missing bits in, it's only a demo tape so 100% perfection isn't a high priority.
But what the heck is going on? It seems, OK, his rendered AVI file had something really odd in it, that 'oddity' made it into the tape and is somehow screwing up either Vidcap or the digital circuits in my VCR yet the data stream is good enough for the VCR to decode it and produce good audio and video on the analogue outputs.
Man this is wierd, only reason I'm sweating on this a bit is this is a new client who already has a good market for his product so an opportunity not to be missed. I promised him to fix up a few things he knows is wrong in his editing but this isn't making the job any easier and I really need to get to the bottom of it before he gives me the real stuff to work on.
Bob.