http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: playback issues - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:57:43 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-tapes#post-72813 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:15:43 +0000 EarlC 72813@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I bite the bullet and like Jack, clean the unit whenever I have to access other client tape brands in my production. It's a tradeoff but I'd rather deal with a bit of over-cleaning rather than deal with some serious toe jam that would otherwise result, and expensive repairs.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-tapes#post-72805 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:57:33 +0000 MProductions 72805@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Darn...so I have about 10 yrs. worth of footage that I've been hoarding, do you think I should toss all the tapes at this point? I would hate to do an annual camera cleaning and mess it up again.</p> <p>Thanks guys!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-tapes#post-72791 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:04:51 +0000 EarlC 72791@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Short answer: IMHO, nothing you do can salvage that bad tape, even purchasing a MiniDV playback system. You'd likely experience the same issues.</p> <p>After experiencing this first hand early on in my video production career, with devastating results financially and professionally, I also stayed with one brand, using SONY Premium tapes in Canon cameras, and have since experienced the same overall performance satisfaction as Jack.</p> <p>During the time of my initial experience with the consequences of mixing brands ... in my case going from SONY to Panasonic, to TDK, to some other brand I cannot remember, under extreme duress I purchased a SONY DSR-11 playback deck. It helped some, in some instances, but was unable to resurrect the tapes that mattered, to the degree that I could satisfactorily salvage a major production.</p> <p>I also had attempted to playback the tapes in the units in which they were recorded as well as other units I had around the editing suite ... to no avail. Lesson learned the hard way on many levels. Since remaining with a single quality brand after expensive transport and head replacement in my Canon XL series units I've not experienced that situation to that degree.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-tapes#post-72789 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:13:41 +0000 jackwolcott 72789@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It is important that you stick with the same brand of tape, irrespective of the camera and brand. Start with Sony, stick with Sony.</p> <p>It is my understanding that there are two different methods of lubricating the surface of video tape: "wet" and "dry." To the touch there is no discernible difference but either deposits material on the record and playback heads of your camera and tape playback device. Mix the two types together and you get a thin coating of "gunk" that eventually causes a head-jam or similar transport problem.</p> <p>Since we have clients bringing in a variety of tapes to our business we have to use head-cleaner on our playback decks nearly every week. However, in our cameras we have used the same brand of tapes -- Panasonic tapes in Sony cameras -- for more than eight years, with only annual cleaning.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-tapes#post-72787 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:30:03 +0000 MProductions 72787@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a canon GL1. I hear that if you use different brands of miniDV tapes, that it messes w/the playback heads, which can cause problems on the tapes, i.e., blocks, large pixels, skipping, etc...</p> <p>I recently filmed a wedding and used a different brand of tape. On the 3rd tape, the blockiness appears and the footage is unusable. I tried to play the tape back on 3 other cameras.</p> <p>If I purchased a miniDV playback system, would I have the same issues? Not sure if they even make those anymore.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/recent-clip-playback-problem#post-45537 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:52:23 +0000 CraftersOfLight 45537@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ok, the above was posted after dealing with the issue for over a week, finding a work-around to get a project done. And after built up fustation of "fighting" it for almost four hours yesterday to figure out what went wrong. This morning, as I am enjoying a hot shower, it strikes me that I should try following.</p> <p>(Running Vista here) Dressed and at the computer I travel through the following Start Button options. Control Panel, Programs and Features, find and click the program, Select Repair. After the repair is done, reinstall any updates/addons you might have. All of twenty minutes later my clips and timeline playbacks are running like normal.</p> <p>Sometimes it is the simple fixes that escape us.</p> <p>I posted this for those who might, at some point, have a similar, "Well it didn't do tht ysterday.", event with their software. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/recent-clip-playback-problem#post-45530 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:58:19 +0000 CraftersOfLight 45530@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have been using Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 for about 3 months now. In the last week or so I have noticed that, whether it's a clip in my library or on my  the timeline, playback appears to be about 10X. A 20 second clip "runs" about 2 seconds. You only see the first frame or 3 of the clip then your at the end. This changes if I adjust playback speed to 99% or 101% then it runs at a more normal rate. I am using AVCHD (.mts) files. Same format I have used, that I am aware of, since I started using VideoStudio. After fussing with putting things in the timeline to review it for a while (30 min or so) it seems to "fix" itself and everything runs fine from that point until I close the program.</p> <p>I can get it to play normal as well if I add a separate audio in the timeline with it. Which is not a problem for the work in progress but trying to run clips from the library so that I can see if its viable for the project just isn't working. I have even played around with the smartproxy settings with no change. Anyone have any ideas what the problem and possible fix might be?</p>