Peter Sieben
January 22nd, 2004, 05:31 PM
Today I've been shooting part of a short movie with my DVX100. In the morning we did two sessions, each consisting of a couple of recordings. Between the first and second shooting session we've checked a couple of shots by rewinding the tape and playback a couple of excerpts. They were fine so I forwarded the tape towards the end of the first recording sessions to start to record the footage of the second session. I'm not sure if I used the end-search button to do this.
After finishing the second session we went for lunch. I wanted to view some of the shots from the second session but there wasn't anything on the tape and the timecode was halted while trying to play the second session! I am sure my DVX100 was recording during shooting, as I saw the red RECORD text on the viewscreen and because of the remaining tape length info that was changing during recording. During the second session the camcorder was turned off a couple of times to spare batterypower. When I tried to record something on another tape, everything seemed to work fine again!
Panic. I called Panasonic but the technical guy couldn't give me an answer or solution, other then that the head could have been dirty temporally.
I keep thinking that it has something to do with the timecode, but the Panasonic guy assured me that whatever I do wrong with the timecode, when the camcorder is recording on a blank tape it should normally write all video/audio signals just to tape, whatever I mess up with the timecode settings. Can anybody confirm this? Has anybody some clues where things could have gone wrong? I'm not really familiar with timecode, nor has my DVX100 been used very much (22 hours within 2 months).
I look forward to your suggestions.
Peter Sieben
P.S. We filmed on the beach and it was very cold, we had two actors, aged 75+. I shamed myself as we had to do the 2nd recording session again in the afternoon.
After finishing the second session we went for lunch. I wanted to view some of the shots from the second session but there wasn't anything on the tape and the timecode was halted while trying to play the second session! I am sure my DVX100 was recording during shooting, as I saw the red RECORD text on the viewscreen and because of the remaining tape length info that was changing during recording. During the second session the camcorder was turned off a couple of times to spare batterypower. When I tried to record something on another tape, everything seemed to work fine again!
Panic. I called Panasonic but the technical guy couldn't give me an answer or solution, other then that the head could have been dirty temporally.
I keep thinking that it has something to do with the timecode, but the Panasonic guy assured me that whatever I do wrong with the timecode, when the camcorder is recording on a blank tape it should normally write all video/audio signals just to tape, whatever I mess up with the timecode settings. Can anybody confirm this? Has anybody some clues where things could have gone wrong? I'm not really familiar with timecode, nor has my DVX100 been used very much (22 hours within 2 months).
I look forward to your suggestions.
Peter Sieben
P.S. We filmed on the beach and it was very cold, we had two actors, aged 75+. I shamed myself as we had to do the 2nd recording session again in the afternoon.