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Posted by Richard Crowley on 02/06/06 03:33
"Chris" wrote ...
> I've a bunch of old Hi8 tapes I'd like to archive on DVD. For this
> I've
> connected my Sony Camcorder DCR-TR7100E through the firewire port to
> my
> PC (Windows XP). Then I play the Hi8 tapes on this camcorder and
> capture the signal with Pinnacle Studio 9. Unfortunately there is
> always a small "noisy" band at the bottom of the captured film that
> doesn't exist if I watch the same tape on TV (camera directly
> connected
> to the TV) or in the camera viewer. I also tried other software like
> Open Video Capture, with the same result. Is this problem due to the
> camera or to the software?
Without actually seeing it, your description sounds like
ordinary "head-switching noise" which is present in ALL
analog consumer tape formats. The noise is always there,
but you just haven't seen it before because it is masked by
the "overscan" of most TV screens (they block the outside
10% of the picture). But you see ALL the picture, all the
way out to the edges of the frame when you import it into
a computer.
A common way to get rid of this is to put a thin black "mask"
over that area. That accomplishes the same thing as the
overscan masking on any TV screen.
> Thanks for any help. Does anybody know if there are
> special Sony Camcorder newsgroups?
I don't, but note that your problem has nothing to do with
Sony equipment.
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