[MacDV] Extreme

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, November 3, 2004, at 08:13  PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> ANYTHING Mac or DV related into their posts.

Why is it that some tapes ( I get tapes from several camera people) 
play on one machine and not another. I mean play without constant 
glitching?
  My stuff works right. Many tapes are made right and capture easily .
  But some, especially the DVCam ones, seem to play ok but the capture 
stops with a message that FCP has detected "a problem with the data".
  These tapes often only play 3 -4 seconds at a time and some clear up 
after about two minutes.
  It isn't my prefs. With a decent tape my stuff can stop save and 
proceed past a TC glitch by itself.
I often capture  a full hour and cut it up later. No problemo.
  I thought it was  my capture control TC settings but they are ok. If I 
see real timecode I switch to it.
I though it was my older player but the tapes often (not always) also 
do this trick in my newer player. Could it be that the cameras overheat?
Sometimes I even get some that the "home office" couldn't play and 
those go just fine. It is frustrating trying to find just the angle of 
this problem.
Sometimes I think my little player overheats running at 130%.
Sometimes I think these guys bury their cameras between jobs.
Jim