Loss of audio in Premiere Pro

[Martha]

Hi
Would be grateful for any help. Audio fine from start to finish when tape played through camera (Sony HVR-Z5). Captured using Premiere Pro. Audio fine in playback for roughly half the captured video then just disappears. Just don't understand it. Tried capturing 4 times. Same problem at exactly same point.
Just captured a test tape using same Premiere settings. Everything fine. Made over 40 videos using same settings on camera and in premiere. Never had a problem.
The only thing I did differently was to absentmindedly plug my headphones into the PC during capture. Would this have screwed the audio?
Thanks.
M

[edDV]

How were you capturing? Which format DV/HDV? DV has uncompressed PCM audio, HDV uses MPeg.

A Firewire capture never touches the PC audio system.

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our camcorder section.

[Martha]

I was capturing in DV.

[edDV]

I was capturing in DV.

I can't think of any reason audio wouldn't transfer. Try it again.

[aedipuss]

clean the cam heads and try again. i've run into a bad spot or two on tapes that will kill the audio for no readily apparent reason. a couple i had to record up to the bad spot, then move past it and start capturing again. nothing would read there but the audio beyond the bad spot was fine.

[Martha]

Thanks edDV and aedipuss.

edDV - I have tried 6 times now. No joy.

aedipuss - I will go and try what you suggest and report back.

Thanks again both.

[Martha]

I captured up to the frame where the audio drops out in playback. Perfect. Then captured after the dodgy point. Perfect. Thanks you so much aedipuss and edDV. Star.