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Posted by Rick Merrill on 06/02/06 19:57
Richard Crowley wrote:
> raida4life wrote ...
>
>>I bought 4 different players and had to return each as every time I
>>changed the settings either I got no sound or intermittent sound
>>playback. Each time I tried this I played them back and made sure the
>>cables weren't loose. I just wonder if this is all due to the fact that
>>I am using RCA jacks to try and retreive the audio and video from these
>>tapes. I am concerned that I may get other recordings like this from
>>Mini DV tapes in the future, and that the tapes may not be able to be
>>played back because this is a problem with Mini DV technology.
>
>
> Millions of people use miniDV technology every day without
> any of those kinds of problems. There does not appear to be
> any kind of fundamental "problem with Mini DV technology".
>
> You will get little practical help here unless you start giving
> specifics like make/model, etc. "4 different players" means
> nothing to us.
>
>
>>I have camcorder equipment that can playback 8mm, Digital 8 tapes and
>>even VHS C, but I have only experienced this problem with Mini DV. I
>>will try the firewire option as someone suggested. I guess it is time I
>>got with the times.
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> You will most certainly get better results from a direct digital
> connection (via Firewire) than you can with any kind of analog
> capture. But whether this will remedy your ongoing problems
> with 12-bit vs. 16-bit seems doubtful.
>
> Frankly, I've never heard any one else experience such problems.
> Few people use 12-bit, and then only by accident, and only once.
> It was a marketing gimmic and turned out to be of little practical
> use. Stick with 16-bit like 99.9999% of the rest of the world.
BUT most camcorders come with 12-bit as the DEFAULT!!!!!!!
>
>>One thing I noticed is that several camera manuals indicate that
>>you can only playback 16 bit audio recordings in 12 bit audio
>>mode.
>
But not vice-versa !-)
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> What kind of cameras are you talking about? Cite name and
> model numbers, please. This makes no sense at all. Furthermore,
> most equipment automatically switches upon playback to the
> format used to record the tape.
Yes, that would help!
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>>In many cases when I tried to change the settings on most of
>>these cameras they would not let me change the Audio to 16 bit.
>
Change it before recording, not after???
> Give us some specifics. Else any practical help will be impossible.
> Do you mean "change the settings" before recording? What does
> "not let me" mean?
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