Neil, Thanks for the speedy reply. I had thought of this, however, he lives in Budapest and no longer has the original camcorder. I do not have access to an 8 mm camcorder to use as mine is DV. Trueman >If it is a tracking problem, then it's likely that the tape path of >either camcorder is out-of-spec. Since they don't have tracking >control, could you either get the original camcorder that shot the >tapes and use it to play back them back, or possibly try a different >camcorder, to see if it can play back better?