Posted by Steve Guidry on 10/03/05 15:46

I agree that it was a servo problem in teh record section. The predecessors
to these decks (the 410's) were notorious for this problem. BUt this is the
first time I noticed it on these.

How about using some keyframe stabilizer or tracking feature of Photoshop or
some other program ? Will this work ?

Steve



"Pat Horridge" <pat@remove-spam.vet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Steve Guidry" <steveguidry@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> >I recently shot a VHS tape (no sneers, please) (grin) with my ooooolllld
> > camera and its JVC RS-s411 dockable. The room was hot and humid.
> >
> > I didn't get a dew indication or shutoff, but periodically the camera
was
> > surging and then re-locking. This was accompanied by a picture breakup
> > and
> > re-lock on the video coming out of the video confidence spigot. This is
a
> > new one for me . . .
> >
> > Is there any way to defeat the auto-sensing speed control of a playback
> > deck
> > to minimize this problem ? (I'd like to play it at the same constant
> > speed,
> > and ignore the speed fluctuations on the playback.) And is this likely
to
> > accomplish a smooth playback ?
> >
> > Do you have any other suggestions ?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Guidry
>
> The problem is that during record if the servo lost lock and speeded up or
> slowed down the rate of frames captured on the tape would now be wrong.
> Playing back at a contant rate probably wouldn't help.
> In fact the video heads writing onto tape during those wrong tape speeds
> will be very difficult if not impossible to re-create at playback.
>
> Sounds like a servo fault on the VTR section to me.
>
>

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