William N Zarvis
July 15th, 2006, 11:20 AM
This could be a very embarrassing question with a painful answer...
Last night was the first night I used my new FX1. It was so dark in the club, where my cousin had asked me to record his performance, that when I put the blank mini-dv tape in and started to record, the LCD flashed the "cassette-tape" symbol. I looked at the mini-dv case and saw that I had put in the tape cleaner and hit record!!! But only for ten seconds.
So my question is, did I damage my head? I remember reading that you should never press "record" when a cleaning tape is in your camera. Did I just ruin my new camera before I even got to use it?
I quickly stopped the camera and switched the tapes. I put in the right tape and recorded over 40 minutes of footage. When I got home to review the footage (thru the LCD & headphones only) Everything came out fine. It looks really good (even in DV mode) and there were no noticeable problems at all.
What an idiot I am for not seeing that the tape I put in was a head cleaner!
Tell me not to worry or that I am lucky and to never do it again!
(Another thing was I had a problem with was that my headphones didn't work when I was recording. I couldn't hear a thing! I was using my ipod headphones. Is there a setting to turn this on during recording.
When I got home to watch the tape on my camera my a different pair of headphones worked then. But they seemed very, very quiet. Is there a way to increase their sound?)
Thanks for your time and attention guys!
Last night was the first night I used my new FX1. It was so dark in the club, where my cousin had asked me to record his performance, that when I put the blank mini-dv tape in and started to record, the LCD flashed the "cassette-tape" symbol. I looked at the mini-dv case and saw that I had put in the tape cleaner and hit record!!! But only for ten seconds.
So my question is, did I damage my head? I remember reading that you should never press "record" when a cleaning tape is in your camera. Did I just ruin my new camera before I even got to use it?
I quickly stopped the camera and switched the tapes. I put in the right tape and recorded over 40 minutes of footage. When I got home to review the footage (thru the LCD & headphones only) Everything came out fine. It looks really good (even in DV mode) and there were no noticeable problems at all.
What an idiot I am for not seeing that the tape I put in was a head cleaner!
Tell me not to worry or that I am lucky and to never do it again!
(Another thing was I had a problem with was that my headphones didn't work when I was recording. I couldn't hear a thing! I was using my ipod headphones. Is there a setting to turn this on during recording.
When I got home to watch the tape on my camera my a different pair of headphones worked then. But they seemed very, very quiet. Is there a way to increase their sound?)
Thanks for your time and attention guys!