Posted by marks542004 on 11/17/05 22:21

Matt wrote:
> I can't decide if I have a batch of bad tapes or if my camera is having
> problems. I can shoot video and audio just fine,

this seems to say that the camera is OK.


> I can capture it to a
> Premiere based system and edit it just fine, when I print to tape or just
> play the time line back through the firewire to the camera the audio sounds
> just fine,

are you monitoring sound at the camera ?

> but when I rewind and check the tape the audio randomly drops
> out. I have switched to the end of a tape from another batch and recorded a
> second or two and the audio doesn't drop out but I don't have enough free
> space on an old tape to fully test the problem.
>
> Like I said the camera records video and audio just fine on a shoot but when
> I try to go back to the camera via firewire I'm suffering random audio
> dropouts even though when I listen to the audio as it's recording,the drop
> outs aren't there. Has anyone else had this problem before?


This sounds to me like you are getting some data dropped when going PC
to camera.

Does your software give any statistics on the transfer ?

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