1996 Hi8 cassettes black white with green and purple stripes

[Hera]

Hi,

I'm digitizing 8 mm tapes from 1996 with an E300 camcorder and USB grabber. The picture is black and white with green and purple stripes, but pressing stop and play temporarily restores the color before it reverts to black and white with stripes again. Some parts are colorful though. Sometimes there is just a single block green stripe on the top.

What settings or troubleshooting do you recommend? A more expensive grabber? Tried to clean inside with alcohol, no residues at all what makes me wonder actually. I have tried two different laptops too.

Thank you!

[lollo]

as first, remove the grabber from the equation, connecting the camera to a TV/monitor to check the video output

[CaptureCraft]

Hanover bars effect and wrong selection of TV system in your grabber.
Make sure your grabber is set to PAL. If color stripes still will be there, then you need to include a good DVD recorder into your chain between your camcorder and grabber. DVD recorders are known to fix the Hanover bars effect and improve video signal in general.

[Hera]

connecting the camera to a TV/monitor to check the video output

Thank you so much. Now to buy an old fashion tv, damn.
This is how it looks ocassionally.

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Thank you CaptureCraft. Now to buy a dvd recorder
What to buy now, both???
And if casette is really that bad, are there any options to rescue? Why are some parts ok though?

[CaptureCraft]

You don't need an old TV. Though, you defiantly need DVD recorder.
I use Sony HXD890. It really helps. However, many other models should work too...
Also, have you checked the settings of you capture card?

[The_Doman]

Now to buy an old fashion tv, damn.
Now to buy a dvd recorder
What to buy now, both???
And if cassette is really that bad, are there any options to rescue? Why are some parts ok though?

Buying things without first knowing the real problem is a really bad practice.
What TV and what video inputs does it have?
The tape is not bad/damaged if the picture only has no color.
It all looks like a capture/video standards incompatibility (MESECAM?) problem?
Is this the original camcorder and/or any info on the exact model/video standard it was recorded?
Similar problems/topics come up on this forum regularly.

Green & Pink Lines on VHS Capture

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What you probably have is a non standard format such as MESECAM or PAL60, you need special capture cards to do those or get a DVD recorder that can accept those format and output a legal frame rate that the normal capture card can understand, There are threads here about this subject just do little digging.

[VWestlife]

The Canon E300 camcorder is from 1993 and thus is almost definitely suffering from bad electrolytic capacitors. If it's working at all now, don't be surprised if you come back to it in a few days and find out it's now totally dead.

[dellsam34]

I remember a similar issue here before where the OP used a $5 easycap and got similar discolored results, Him getting a better capture device fixed his problem, Not ruling out a bad camcorder but I would connect the damn thing to a TV first to get an idea on what's going on.

[jagabo]

That issues has shown up several times here. I believe a Panasonic DVD recorder in passthrough mode will clean up the horizontal time base so that the capture device no longer creates the color bands.

[VWestlife]

No capture device or DVD recorder will fix an early 1990s camcorder whose capacitors are oozing out their electrolyte and corroding the circuit boards.

[CaptureCraft]

No capture device or DVD recorder will fix an early 1990s camcorder whose capacitors are oozing out their electrolyte and corroding the circuit boards.

It is your assumption the capacitors gone bad.
I have Canon camcorder from 1996 - there is nothing wrong with it.