On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 06:04 PM, Richard Brown wrote: > This speaks to the wild variance even TAPE to TAPE on the SAME Canon > camera. Cheez man I know how you feel. Especially when you run into an unplayable Tape#3. I take tapes from a number of cameras and can't even know what they are. I got a JVC which plays some of the more problematic ones that would seemingly play on a Sony but hang up FCP every ten seconds. Sometimes I even have to play the DV through it's analog outs and digitize with the media converter. No DV start/stop detect then boy. J