Why am I getting shivering videos in the preview? How can it be fix'd?

puitanli wrote on 1/29/2014, 3:01 PM

Hello all,

My camcorder is a Sony video8 XR ccd-trv3e
Using Magix Rescue your video 7.0 (hardware included)

When I am capturing the video from my cam. There are many thick and thin lines in the movie. The video is shivering heavily aswell.
However, these problem doesn't appear when I connect the cam to the tv directly.

How can this be fix'd?

I have uploaded a test video to youtube (13seconds)

Though, youtube decreased the quality of this video even more, so the problem I described isn't appearing.
Could you take a look in the original video
Here is the download link https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15249798/test.WMV
It is 17Mb big a WMV file

Thnx in advance for the help

Pui

Note:

I have tried every Video Standard from pal to NTSC, but it didn't help.

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 1/29/2014, 4:28 PM

How old is the camera and the tape and how much use has it had?

From the original video the effects I am seeing are an indication of either worn tape, dirty video heads or worn video heads.

Have you run a cleaning tape through the camera?

John

puitanli wrote on 1/29/2014, 5:48 PM

Thank you for the reply,

My cam and the tape is 10+ year. I haven't run cleaning tape, since I didn't know it's existence...

I have run another test, but this time with my nintendo wii.

I have tried every video standard again, but all pal and ntsc option has the same result.

All of them has many thick and thin lines during the preview aswell as in the exported video.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15249798/Wii%20test.WMV

My wii isn't that old and it looks great on tv. Is it normal to have thick/thin lines after analog to digital conversion? The monkey video that I showed you, on tv it looks a bit better than the wiitest.wmv from this post. Thought, on tv it has no thick/thin lines.

Pui

johnebaker wrote on 1/30/2014, 12:06 PM

All your tests indicate the fault is with the camera or tape or both.

. . . . My cam and the tape is 10+ year. I haven't run cleaning tape, since I didn't know it's existence . . . .

At this age with frequent use I would expect the camera video heads to be worn and the tape to be almost unusable.

Try running a cleaning tape through the camera and record some video on to a new tape. This will show if it is the tape or the camera.

If a new tape exhibits the same problem then it may be time to consider a replacement camera.

If you do I would suggest looking at one that records to hard drive or memory card - you do not have to do any importing from the camera, you can copy the video files from the hard drive or memory card direct to the computer.

HTH

John

puitanli wrote on 1/31/2014, 4:08 AM

Seems like I need a new cam.

Thank you for the tip!