Posted by Richard Crowley on 04/17/06 18:00

"Steve King" wrote ...
>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.

You can get the same artifacts from DVCAM. I am taking my DSR-300
into the shop (today, I hope) to get a very similar problem fixed. It is
likely a dirty and/or misaligned tape path.

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