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Old January 27th, 2008, 11:21 PM   #1
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Does the 200 like DV mode?

I'm getting use to my new 200 and shot a couple of things early on in Dv mode using brand new Sony DVM stock, and both times in the first 2-4 minutes, I'm getting what looks like bad head clog and then it clears up.

I noticed something in the manual about rolling a couple of minutes off in the front, but dang this scares the you know what now having to worry if I got enough preroll going.

Is this a normal kind of thing? Does using the HDV tape stock ( which I've got, just didn't want to use it on a regular DV shoot) reduce these 'issues'
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Old January 28th, 2008, 12:16 AM   #2
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I've shot plenty of straight DV without any issues.
It might be a tape stock issue. Are you using Sony HDV tape as well?
Changing brands can cause head clogs. The beginning of a tape is always a bit risky (another reason to run bars and black, which you can do automatically with the camera with a cute shortcut).
Clean the heads and maybe use a different type of tape. The tape can be even more of an issue with HDV.
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Old January 28th, 2008, 12:57 AM   #3
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Changing brands can cause head clogs.

Hi John,

Changing brands of stock should always be done with a head cleaning tape as the change in formula will cause corruption 9 times out of ten.

I have found the Panasonic pro stock to be the best for the JVC cameras from the 101 up to the 251. It is slightly cheaper than the JVC stock also.

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Old January 28th, 2008, 10:02 AM   #4
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thanks Sean & Allan.
I guess the reason I'm a tad concerned is 1) I've shot a ton of this same tape stock on the DSR-300 / PD-150, & 170 and haven't seen an issue like this before. and 2) the 200 had roughly 5 minutes of time on the heads before the first tape I had an issue with.
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Old January 28th, 2008, 10:34 AM   #5
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Hello i used panasonic tapes on my Canon XL1S/ Sony FX1/ JVC HD110U
When i was using Tape on MY 110 only shoot tape less now

i used Panasonic AY-DVM60EJ tapes for DV/HDV NEVER had a problem
on any of my cameras, In DV/HDV mode Dv only XL1S

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