[MacDV] Old Tape problem

[Matthew Guemple]

Do you have access to FCP?

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Tuckerman Moss wrote:

> I'm making some DVD's from old analog VHSC cassettes - playing them 
> through my DV camera into iMovie.  all works fine.  But today I've 
> come up with a tape that seems to play VERY slowly in the old analog 
> camera.  Plays fine in a VHS stand-alone player.  I'm suspicious that 
> the old camera record head, capstans and stuff are just dirty.  Can I 
> clean a VHS head with Q-tips and alcohol?  Is there a cleaning tape 
> for this size?  Any other thoughts/reasons?  I can't just sidestep the 
> camera and record from the VHS player because the tape is NTSC but the 
> player is PAL - with internal translation.  There's no output point 
> where it's NTSC.  And my dv camera is NTSC also.  Don't ask - it works 
> for me.
>
> Thanks,  Tuck
>
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