VHS Playback "Glitchy". Trying to Cleanly Digitize Old Cassettes.

[Kong]

Hello folks. Hopefully, someone here will know how to address this.

Periodically, and with no consistency in timing or frequency, my VHS tapes will be playing normally, and then for about 1 second, will stop playback, then resume playback where it would have been if it had played back normally. Does this make sense?

I am trying digitize my old tapes (only selected portions though, so I have to watch each tape all the way through). But, I don’t want those glitches in the digital files.

Can anyone make a recommendation? I have cleaned the heads, to no avail.

Thanks

[dellsam34]

Without a visualization, it's hard to guess what might your problem be. Failure in VCR hardware, capture hardware, software, hundreds of combinations possible.

[Kong]

Without a visualization, it's hard to guess what might your problem be. Failure in VCR hardware, capture hardware, software, hundreds of combinations possible.

Okay... I will see if I cannot get an example uploaded. Can I do that? (It may take a few days.)

[Kong]

Without a visualization, it's hard to guess what might your problem be. Failure in VCR hardware, capture hardware, software, hundreds of combinations possible.

Okay... I will see if I cannot get an example uploaded. Can I do that? (It may take a few days.)

Might not matter. Thank you for the response, but it seems that the glitch is not actually recorded. It only seems to appear in my VidBox preview window.

Thanks!

Keith