How can I clean up a digital "noise" on my video

enneRV · Post by **enneRV** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:52 pm

The video that I took has a horizontal "digital noise" (a line of square pixels) right on the center of the video. I suspect that it may have been caused by improperly inserting the tape and it did not align correctly with the tape head of the camera. After I took out the tape, rewinded and played it, there it was (I'm not sure if I'm identifying this correctly as a "digital noise"). If it was an analogue recording, I'm thinking I could fix it by adjusting the tracking.

Is there a way to clean this up?

Is there a video filter to do this?

Thanks.
enneRV

nosnoop · Post by **nosnoop** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:32 pm

These are data drop out. Basically some of the data in the tape were not readable or not read properly.

My first suggestion is to try using a tape head cleaner first, or use your friend camcorder to see if the problem exists. It would be quite difficult to get rid of the artefact.

roy wood · Post by **roy wood** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:54 pm

Hi in the absense of more expert opinion. If you haven't already done so I think you need to do some detective work to see if the problem is just on this particular tape or with the equiptment . If other tapes record and plaback ok then it's this tape and I don't think any filter will fix that. If the recording is precious a Profesional Lab may be able to do something with it at a cost.

enneRV · Post by **enneRV** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:06 am

Thanks for the reply. I guess I'm stuck with this bad tape.

Yes, I've tried cleaning the heads and yes, it is only this tape. I used the camera recently and all my recordings are okay. Playing old tapes are fine too.

Have a great day guys.