Courtney Manders
January 25th, 2013, 10:50 AM
Sorry this is so long,
In August I shot a wedding using a Sony DSR-250 camera. Yes I know it's old. But I have used it hundreds of times. I'm not the most technical, so I don't touch any settings unless given specific instructions.
I shot a wedding job I got on my own, which I've done quite a few times. I shoot auto focus, and the only buttons I touch are record, zoom, and audio to see the audio on the viewer. For this event I used brand new, still wrapped mini-DV tapes.
I use a consumer Samsung mini-DV camera to upload my footage to my Mac Book Pro. I just got it, and its a slightly older camera as well, but in good condition. I uploaded 1 prior wedding video successfully in the fall.
Anyway, capturing was going fine until it just stopped and said something about a time code error and this message "the audio sample rate of one or more of your captured media files does not match the sample rate on your source tape. this may cause the video and audio of these media files to be out of sync. make sure the audio sample rate of your capture preset matches the sample rate of your tape." My friend who owns the camera said not to worry about it.
But my MAIN problem is what I discovered next on the tape. It was playing all slow, jumpy, voices garbled, kind of like it was in slow motion. I video taped a snipit of it and sent to my friend. he said, don't panic, you just need a camera head cleaning tape. So I went and got one. Followed instructions, put tape back in, still plays bad. I put another tape from the same wedding in, that is bad too. I put a tape from a different wedding in, and it is fine.
What I don't get is, I watched a few minutes of the tapes on the camera I was shooting on while at the wedding and it was fine.
What is the problem???!!! I'm freaking out because this is someones wedding video, and I'm horrible at technical stuff and I don't know where to begin to fix this issue.
Thank you!!
In August I shot a wedding using a Sony DSR-250 camera. Yes I know it's old. But I have used it hundreds of times. I'm not the most technical, so I don't touch any settings unless given specific instructions.
I shot a wedding job I got on my own, which I've done quite a few times. I shoot auto focus, and the only buttons I touch are record, zoom, and audio to see the audio on the viewer. For this event I used brand new, still wrapped mini-DV tapes.
I use a consumer Samsung mini-DV camera to upload my footage to my Mac Book Pro. I just got it, and its a slightly older camera as well, but in good condition. I uploaded 1 prior wedding video successfully in the fall.
Anyway, capturing was going fine until it just stopped and said something about a time code error and this message "the audio sample rate of one or more of your captured media files does not match the sample rate on your source tape. this may cause the video and audio of these media files to be out of sync. make sure the audio sample rate of your capture preset matches the sample rate of your tape." My friend who owns the camera said not to worry about it.
But my MAIN problem is what I discovered next on the tape. It was playing all slow, jumpy, voices garbled, kind of like it was in slow motion. I video taped a snipit of it and sent to my friend. he said, don't panic, you just need a camera head cleaning tape. So I went and got one. Followed instructions, put tape back in, still plays bad. I put another tape from the same wedding in, that is bad too. I put a tape from a different wedding in, and it is fine.
What I don't get is, I watched a few minutes of the tapes on the camera I was shooting on while at the wedding and it was fine.
What is the problem???!!! I'm freaking out because this is someones wedding video, and I'm horrible at technical stuff and I don't know where to begin to fix this issue.
Thank you!!