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Strange problem with VHS import Can anyone help?

I hope someone can help me with this obscure problem. I tried importing some VHS tapes me and some friends made of Halo on the xbox. There are 4 tapes in total.

I used the Miglia Directors Cut Take 2 but only one of the four tapes appears in the preview window.

I've tried all manner of things to get the other tapes to work. One thing that might be of note is that I tried copying one of the tapes to a second video. The footage of Halo still didn't appear but the TV program directly after it (which was already on this second video) did.

Is it something to do with the video players that were used to record the footage as each one of the 4 tapes was recorded to on a different player.

Anyone got any ideas? Ever come across this before?

Power Mac Quad G5, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jul 29, 2006 8:43 AM

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Jerry Hofmann

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Posted on Jul 29, 2006 9:12 AM

My guess is that the video out from an Xbox is so unstable, that only the sloppy parameters of VHS let you see it at all. When you send it's bad signal to FCP, it just can't deal with it.

Might try a VHS machine with a Time Base Corrector in it, or dub the material to DV then capture it... Since ONE of the recordings worked, it's likely that machine might work for all recordings.. i.e. you'd have to re record with that same machine... try the dub though, that at least will digitize the VHS and give the playback from DV a good shot of being capturable I'd suggest...

Jerry

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Kojima Author

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Jul 31, 2006 11:44 AM in response to Jerry Hofmann

Thanks for your suggestions. Yes I read it right "NTPB", I've no idea what it means by that either.

Bogiesan what do you mean by "a deck that will play PAL or NTPB"? Is NTPB a broadcast standard? Both my decks play PAL as I live in the UK and they will also play NTSC.

Kojima Author

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Aug 4, 2006 1:13 AM in response to Jerry Hofmann

Apparently NTPB is another name for PAL60, or so I read on the internet. In case you don't know PAL60 is a sort of PAL compatible NTSC signal used on a large number of UK video games.

Do you think my problem would be solved if I used an external Time Base Corrector? Taking into account my VCR has an in-built one and that hasn't made any difference.

Aug 4, 2006 7:06 AM in response to Kojima

Probably not... It needs to be either PAL or NTSC to capture right I'd think... so you'd need a standards converter to make it so if it's this NTPB signal.

Jerry

Strange problem with VHS import Can anyone help?