Capture Problem.

GTaylor wrote on 1/8/2005, 2:54 PM

I recently upgraded from a Sony DCR TRV-310 to the TRV-460 to capture and edit hours of tape that I had already captured with the model 310.
The old 310 finally gave out with a pinging noise and flashing error number “C:32:10” What ever that could be is beyond me. I simply figured that with the amount of video I had captured it was time to upgrade to a newer model camera.
Now the problem I’m having with the TRV-460 is this. While capturing the video it seems to have a splotched pattern in different areas from time to time during capture, and the sound seems to go haywire from time to time also.
I bought the newer camera under the pretence it would capture the video from the older model with no problems. I don’t know if there is a setting I’ve missed or what. The video will play along fine and then all of the sudden the splotches appear, and the sound goes wacky! Then it quits, and plays along just fine again.
What’s really odd, is that it’s not consistent. In other words it doesn’t do this in same spot on the tapes that I’ve tested it with. It’s just at random times.

Any help would be appreciated.

GTaylor

Comments

jetdv wrote on 1/8/2005, 3:48 PM

While I cannot say for sure this is what's happening in this case, it is possible that the heads were slightly out of alignment on the old camera. When playing back tapes recorded on that camera in a different camera, you can get the symptoms you are indicating.

DGrob wrote on 1/8/2005, 4:50 PM

Can you try another camera to eliminate that possiblility? If it also displays those problems on two sources, you've got tape problems. Darryl

rebel44 wrote on 1/8/2005, 5:48 PM

That look like a tape problem. Could be the head in old camera or the new one have dirty heads(it could happen). The again there is a moisture issue.
No way in hell you can capture using old camera?

GTaylor wrote on 1/8/2005, 6:18 PM

Thanks for the replies gentlemen. And don’t fall out of your chairs when I tell you this!

But the first thing I did was take the camera back and exchange it. I was next to positive the tapes I had weren’t the problem, or at least I hoped they weren’t! “Counting my lucky stars since it’s extremely rare content”
So they gave me another new camera, and I got same problem from it! What never made sense, was that the problem showed up at random times. Nothing was consistent about it at all. The patterns were never in the same spot on any of the tapes I tested.

The fix..??? And yes I feel about an inch tall saying this.
But the fix was simple…. I used a cleaning tape on it and it works fine now.

Thanks for your time and effort.

GTaylor

Grazie wrote on 1/8/2005, 11:28 PM

Well, that's excellent . . but I'm not having you 1" tall! Coming here and saying it has made you grown up in my eyes! Great stuff!

New cammies? Nasty beasts sometimes .. not having their bottoms wiped when leaving factory OR not inspected past last assembly. You wanna see the threads over on the Canon GL2/XM2 site specifically on this matter. Legion!

The point being here is that it is counter intuitive to think that YOU need to clean a brand new camera - THAT'S the point! It should work outta the box straight off for at least 50 tapes - or whatever - you don't expect to have to apply a cleaning process yourself - from the start! Does the Manual say: "Because we are so dirty with our production methods we always recommend you use a tape cleaner from the time you get it outta the box. Thank you for buying our dirty product. You will have years of great shooting with it" ? IIiiiii think not! Then how are you gonna second guess you need too?

Again, I/you/we need to have that sense of a datum: Everything from here on is brand new and CLEAN! Anything I know do needs to be adjusted to take into account I may be shooting/using 50 tapes. But this? Where do you start? You don't - well I don't - take a brand new car outta the car show room and turn immediately left, straight into the nearest car wash? Do you? .. Well, maybe you do?

Have fun, . .. . I know I do!

Grazie

GTaylor wrote on 1/9/2005, 4:45 AM

Yeppers! I was totally shocked that it needed cleaned right out of the box. I think I'm even more shocked that I've actually taken what was probably a perfectly good camera back to start with!
AND, I'm not EVEN going into the story about how the orginal store I had bought the camera from did NOT have a replacement. Or how I had to drive the extra hour from home to get the replacment camera myself...
Or the time lost, or the fact that I had to deal with a salesman that seemed to think he knew more than I ever will.... Etc, etc, etc...
Live and learn I guess.

Thanks for the info.
GTaylor

Grazie wrote on 1/9/2005, 5:30 AM

Way to go G! . .Oh, BTW, great initial for a name .. . :)