wilky1974
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Jul 19, 2005, 12:02 PM
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Bars on Video Playback / DV Drive
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have been noticing more instances where there will be 4-5 bars across the video during playback. This happens every once in a while. It has happened to my Cannon XL1-S, and my GL2 (which are both about 2 years old), and I have cleaned the heads, and maybe that has helped - not real sure.
But now I have a brand new Sony PD-170 (4 months old). I use nothing but new tapes in that camera, and I have already had some of those bars in playback. It may only be for 1-2 seconds, but nonetheless, it is very irritating.
Do other people on here have the same problem? Because I have heard that it's not good to switch brand-names, I only use one brand all the time - Panasonic.
Are problems with those bars, just something that we have to get used to?
The most iritating thing is, in our business, we can't just stop recording, rewind, and then play back to see if the problem is currently happening....we have to keep shooting. Then we get back home, ready to edit, and walla! bars across the screen, and that segment is useless.
Another quick question....does anyone use the carry-along DV hard drives, and record directly to that? I know you can record to the hard drive and tape simultaneously.....if you do that, would those bars also be transfered to the hard drive footage?....or does the signal go directly from the camera to the hard drive.......and not from the camera to the tape, and then the hard drive?
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