Pixelation problems

tocsese wrote on 10/13/2006, 4:57 PM

Hello,
Trying to help out a friend that used a HD camcorder with standard DV tapes. When they are captured into Vegas they are pixelated and the sound drops in and out, also has occasional pops. Is there any way to fix this? Filters perhaps? Or is this a video card issue?
Thanks - Tom

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farss wrote on 10/13/2006, 7:03 PM

Surely he was capturing this via firewire?
If so I'd start with a head cleaning ritual.
We've had 100s of hours of HDV captured onto standard sony tape with no issue. Also assuming this was recorded on HDV then you just cannot get the typical DV type dropouts, those little sparkles and 'zzzzt' sounds in the audio. The HDV error correction prevents them. What you do get with extreme dropouts in HDV are a seqeunce of frozen frames. Something is fishy, need more info. And filters etc and the last port of call, pretty well nigh useless for this problem. Patching faulty frames (which is very tedious) is one solution posr capture BUT concentrate first on the capture problem.

Bob.

fldave wrote on 10/13/2006, 7:05 PM

If your friend used a DV tape that had been used in another camcorder before the HD one, and if the pixelation is actually very large blocks in the image, then you probably started capturing on the DV portion of the tape. When it transitioned over to the HDV footage, the capture program couldn't adjust.

Play the tape until a bit into the HDV footage, then start the capture from there. I had a similar problem with standard 8mm to D8 tape transition recently.

Note: I'm assuming you are using an HDV cam, and the cam is set on HDV firewire output.