- Reused DV tape showed slightly worse footage
- Posted by cindy on May 20th, 2004
For the first time, I reused a SONY 60-min MiniDV tape. It was a
sunny Spring day and the weather couldn't be better and we were
at a park. But later when Premiere captured the whole footage
from the tape, it showed a layer of whiteness to it. Different
from objects' sharp edges that I had with this tape and this SONY
PC101, this time the edges were fuzzy. Do any of you have this
experience with reused MiniDV tapes?
- Posted by denomolos on June 5th, 2004
"cindy" <cindy@callme.com> wrote in message
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No. I reuse MiniDV tapes all the time and I haven't noticed any degradation
in video quality. I have a feeling what you're seeing here is something
else.
- Posted by Richard Crowley on June 5th, 2004
"cindy" wrote ...
That is NOT the kind of artifact you see from problems with
digital recording. Artifacts like "pixelization" or "blockieness"
are the mot common symptoms of faulty digital video recording.
Your symptom sounds more like light leaking into the camera.
Were you using a lens hood?
- Posted by Rich on June 5th, 2004
"cindy" <cindy@callme.com> wrote in message
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No.
I normally reuse tapes once. The original shooting and eventually archive
the final .AVI back to tape. I do have a few tapes I have reused for test,
experiments, titles, things to work on in the future, emergencies, etc and
have never had any problems.
Rich
