corruption in only the beginning of a DV tape

[yadda]

OK I am trying to transfer a miniDV tape to PC using WinDV (for that matter I have tried other capture programs with the same result)

Problem: No matter where I cut it there is corruption (wavy pattern-sound is garbled) in the first scene selection. WinDV automatically makes separate AVI files from this 1hr tape. The first one the sound is always missing. The other 4 are OK. I pull it up in Gspot and it is OK.

suggestions???

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[edDV]

No idea but its always good practice to put about a minute of black on the start of the tape to allow the editor to pre-roll and to avoid end of tape issues like stretches and worst case, oxide scrapes.

[yadda]

Great advice but unfortunately this tape is from a buddy's motorcycle helmet cam.

Anyone have ideas????

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[lordsmurf]

Moved to DV forum... maybe you get more help there.