Strange - 8mm anolog --> DV

Caruso wrote on 3/14/2004, 4:05 PM
I did a multi-cam shoot of a two hour concert recently. Three cams involved, one regular 8mm, one hi-8, one digi-8 (I know, a motly trio, but one has to work with what one has available).

Of course, the Digi8 transferred without a hitch. The Hi-8 tape, played through the Digi8 cam transferred with 6 early dropped frames - nothing to worry about - I don't quite understand why the dropped frames, but they occur before the music begins, so I won't worry about them).

The regular 8mm, also played through the digi8 transferred with 0 dropped frames - I monitored both audio and video during the transfer - all appeared to go well.

When I brought everything to the timeline to sync the three tracks, I found that the regular 8mm video was all garbled, and the audio was reduced in speed and pitch. The length of this track was approximately a third longer than the other two.

I've done a work around by first dubbing the 8mm to a digi8 cassette and transferring from the dub, but I'm curious as to why I might have experienced this problem - has anyone else?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Caruso

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 3/14/2004, 9:11 PM
My first thought was that maybe the pass through capability of the camera you are using to convert analog to DV is of dubious quality... It is really strange. Does the file in question play normally in Media Player or is it the same as in Vegas?
Caruso wrote on 3/14/2004, 11:04 PM
Playback is the same, no matter how I start it. The avi file is definitely corrupted. I use a Sony TRV103 NTSC digi8. Have transferred many an analog tape in this manner without problems, albeit, not in some time, and not since having moved from previous versions (2.x and 3.x) of VV to V4. Currently running 4.0d (sorry, I'm still clinging to Sonic Foundry).

I wouldn't rule out a camera problem, but, other analog tapes (such as the Hi8 tape that is also part of this project) transfer fine. I was anxious to get moving on my project, so I did not try to recapture the problem tape through the cam, but, instead, as I explained in my previous post, simply dubbed it using the Hi8 cam (instead of the regular 8mm cam on which this footage was originally shot) via S-video connection to the digi8, then, captured from the dub.

That worked just fine. When I have more time, I'll go back and try a straight dub, just out of curiosity.

Thanks for the reply.

Caruso