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Jun 24, 2005, 8:00 AM
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Can't Capture footage onto deck - XL1 problem or Sony Tape problem?
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I have a Canon XL1. No problems in the past. Recently, we have run into a problem capturing footage from mini dv tape. We use Sony DVC Premium 60. Edit on Final Cut Pro. Here is the problem:
Filmed at a school in February. Could capture footage in beginning of tape and end of tape, but in middle, deck would not let us capture do to lost frames. We set the dialog box to continue in Final Cut Pro even if we have dropped frames, but it freezes up immediately.
We had to convert over to DVD and then back again.
We continued filming no problem through the spring and into this summer. Each time there was no problem with capturing off of other tapes.
Yesterday, same problem happened again. Except this time can capture NO footage off of tape. We tried different in points to no avail.
What could be causing us not to be able to capture footage? We have tried other decks and the tape still will not capture. We have tried other tapes, and the other decks do capture. We can run the tape in VHS mode on the XL1 and see the footage. We can even run the AV cord into a VHS and make VHS copies. But we can't get the footage into the computer????
We bought our Sony tapes in bulk when they were on sale 8 months ago. I think all tapes came from one of two five pack boxes and may have come from same box.
Is this an XL1 problem or a tape problem????
Thanks so much,
Giff
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