I hope this is a nobrainer for you guys familiar with MiniDv and DVCAM decks. I'm chugging my way trough a big bunch of MiniDv tapes for a client. However, I just discovered that for a certain tape with around 10 minutes left the playback stops when there's a time code change. Or to be fair, the machine tries to continue playing but the time code kind och flickers in a jerky manner and no video is sent to the FireWire output, however to the analogue output I use for reference where the video coincides with the jumping time code. (Se attached video.)
If I out the tape into a Dv camera the tape plays all the way to the end. At the moment I feel a bit uncomfortable since I don't know for how many tapes the machine has been doing this. (Didn’t hook up the analogue monitor until now so all I’ve seen on other tapes is that the reproduction through FireWire has stopped, making me conclude that the tape had reached its end. I might have to compare all the captured files with their corresponding tape in the Dv camera before delivering to client.
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