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Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/05/02 11:48
"bumperski" wrote ...
>I searched the archives looking for this and didn't find it.
> We have Panasonic AGDVC30's and a Canon Xl1.
> Anything shot in the Panasonics does not play in the Canon.
> We have sent these tapes to the local public TV station
> where they have miniDV decks, and they could not play
> them either. They said something of a head alignment.
> What is that and can it be done?
Alignment of the tape path is a very critical thing, especially
with smaller tape formats. If everything is not aligned properly,
you will loose "interchange" which is the ability to play tapes
recorded on another machine.
Unless something is really badly screwed up, you should be
able to play a tape back on the same machine that was used to
record it. If there were only one machine on the planet, this
would be good enough. But since we would like to be able
to exchange tapes, etc. there is a *standard* way of aligning
machines that everyone agrees to use. Note that the standard
is the same for all brands/models of equipment for a given
tape format (like mini-DV, etc.)
It sounds like you simply have a camcorder (likely the Panny)
which is mis-aligned. Fixing the problem is as "simple" as
sending it in for repair. Note, however, that any of the tapes
you shot on that camcorder will no longer be playable as
they are out of alignment themselves. The solution is to
copy those tapes that can't be played anywhere else before
sending the Panny in for repair.
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