Export to tape

[pkk888]

First post here - it looks very nice and helpfull this forum, so ill give it a try.

My problem is when im exporting to tape. I get these blue "hickups" where the sound and picture dissapears for a short while to be replaced by a blue screen, maybe for 1 second or so, never more that that. Only to return to normal picture and sound again. Im using adobe Premiere Pro, and I have no problems capturing video. This works fine.
I have tried turning every piece of software off, like antivirus, Trillian and so on. Nothing helps. I have tried using Vegas Video 4.0 to export to tape, and it helped, but it wasnt perfect. Vegas also produced another error, namely stopping the export to tape, before the video file had come to an end.
Im using Firewire, and im using the port on my Audigy sound card, could this be the trouble? It captures the video perfect. Ive tried using DVIO but couldn't make it work.
My specs should be within the required : AMD XP 2000, 768MB DDR333 RAM, 120GB Disk 7200, 75GB Disk 7200. Premiere Pro and the video files do not recide on the same disk. The video files have their own disk (the 75GB one).
Im using WinXP, and have tried tweaking it to the best video performance, by looking at different FAQ and so on relating to video editing. The files im trying to export are the DV files (13GB for an hour), is this a problem? Should I try another format? The reason for the big files is offcourse because I dont want to lose any quality.


Can anyone help me please. All help and tips are most welcome!

Regards Jacob Jensen, Denmark

[grossjamesh]

What you describe is a classic example of tape drop out. I have several commerical tapes with this problem I have also made tapes with this problem.
Try,
Cleaning the tape heads.
Using the best quality tape.
Make sure that the transport is clean and the capstan has no oil on it.
Make sure the tape is moving smoothly through the transport.
While looking that the tape carefully advance the tape by rotating the take up reel and see if your tape is spliced. This goes back to quality tape.
Look at the edge of the tape is it crinkled. This will lift the tape away from the heads.

Also,
Make sure that the connectors are tight and cann't wiggle.

there are other things that might cause this but I think its the tape machine.