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June 9th, 2015, 02:40 PM
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Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
Bizarre time code problem….Time code stopped rolling on both of my EA50s at the same time! They record and everything seems fine but all I have on my viewfinder is a string of zeros that does not change. User Bit works but not traditional Rec Run code I always use. My original EA50U did this once before when it was very new. I had to do a factory reset and since then it worked fine. But now that both cameras are doing it at the same time it blows me away. Now I am wondering if it is something I did but I don’t know what that would be? A couple of weeks ago I did an out of state shoot. That is when I noticed it, when I was in Arkansas. Did I go through a time warp or fly into a hot nuclear zone? I don’t know? I do not know if the travel had anything to do with it or not. I keep GPS turned off and auto zone turned off. I went through both cameras and changed everything that has to do with time and GPS and then set it back. I don’t know if those things are even linked to the time code generator or not but I tried with no luck.
I would really like to avoid hitting the reset button and losing all of my settings on two cameras. Ideas anyone? Steve
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June 10th, 2015, 12:16 AM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
What is your setup? Are you recording to SD and/or FMU?
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June 10th, 2015, 09:09 AM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
Just the same 32 gig san disk cards I always use. No FMU.
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June 10th, 2015, 12:08 PM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
Steven:
I think you are looking at user bits (U-Bit) instead of timecode. There is a t TC/U-bit toggle on top of the camera with the transport controls.
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June 10th, 2015, 01:49 PM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
Thanks Lee, that was it! I own two of them, I thought I knew every menu item and every button. Now I have a red face because I don't use UB so I have never used that button. It was a dark reception and I was pushing things in the dark. When both cameras started doing it I suspected user error but kept trying to fix it in the menu settings. Now I know. A dedicated button for TC/UB? Go figure....
Steve
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June 10th, 2015, 03:31 PM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
It's fresh on my mind because I inadvertently pressed that button last week.
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June 10th, 2015, 07:07 PM
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Re: Bizarre...Time Code quit working...both cameras
Good call, Lee. This is almost always the reason when someone thinks TC has stopped working on Sony cams. Telltale sign is that the colons (:) disappear.
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