Posted by Steve King on 04/17/06 16:41

I had my first tape drop-out experience with MiniDV in over four years of
using the format. I first noticed it as a 6-frame complete audio drop out.
Then, upon examining those six frames noticed that four of them each have
maybe half a dozen isolated blocky glitches different on each frame. This
occured when sending the time line back to tape for an archive master. No
conclusions other than maybe I'm going to switch to DVCAM for archive
masters ;-)

Interestingly, the flaw is much less noticable on the DVD I burned from the
affected tape.

Steve King

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