Roger Van Duyn
March 31st, 2016, 11:06 AM
When the dashes disappear, does the green box appear and stay there? That means the two devices have established a link with each other. The green box should NOT disappear until you press the record button on the camera. Then that icon is replaced by the red circle, which is the recording in progress icon. The green box is the standby or ready to record icon. Until the green icon appears, the camera has not recognized the recorder.
If the dashes disappear, and no green box appears, that means communication is not established, in the camera's opinion, so to speak. Your device MAY still record. The camera just doesn't know that it's there. That happens fairly frequently for me. So I turn both camera and recorder off, and then back on. This resets both devices. Occasionally it takes me two or three attempts until communication is established. That's the quirky behavior I mentioned in my previous post. It's not unusual, in my experience. It also occurred with a hard drive recorder from CitiDisk I used to have.
Are you recording by pressing the button on the camera, or is there a button on your recorder you are pressing? My old CitiDisk would record without setting up the Digital Video Control if I pressed the record button on the unit itself, the vast majority of the time. But not always.
Sadly, the CitDisk had other issues, I'd bought it used, and I junked it after a year or so.
I never feel assured recording is actually taking place until first the green box icon, and then the red recording icon appear. I also check the display on the recorder to make sure the time code is actually increasing, showing recording is taking place.
My DN-60 recorders both work seem to work better if I don't have a tape in the camera at all. I haven't used a tape in either one of my cameras in about two years, dozens and dozens of jobs. A lot of my jobs are long recording sessions, depositions, meetings and such. Changing tapes every sixty minutes creates unwelcome interruptions.
I use the 60 mb/s Sandisk CF cards most of the time. But, I have two 30 mb/s SanDisk CF cards that also work reliably. I stick with what the manufacturer recommends.
Since the computer receives from the camera, your fire wire port is probably okay. I've had to have one of my cameras repaired twice for the fire wire port.
If I understand correctly, you did manage to record DV material to the fire store. The clips were really there on the card? If so, then the fire wire port on the recorder is okay too, and the cable.
If the dashes disappear, and no green box appears, that means communication is not established, in the camera's opinion, so to speak. Your device MAY still record. The camera just doesn't know that it's there. That happens fairly frequently for me. So I turn both camera and recorder off, and then back on. This resets both devices. Occasionally it takes me two or three attempts until communication is established. That's the quirky behavior I mentioned in my previous post. It's not unusual, in my experience. It also occurred with a hard drive recorder from CitiDisk I used to have.
Are you recording by pressing the button on the camera, or is there a button on your recorder you are pressing? My old CitiDisk would record without setting up the Digital Video Control if I pressed the record button on the unit itself, the vast majority of the time. But not always.
Sadly, the CitDisk had other issues, I'd bought it used, and I junked it after a year or so.
I never feel assured recording is actually taking place until first the green box icon, and then the red recording icon appear. I also check the display on the recorder to make sure the time code is actually increasing, showing recording is taking place.
My DN-60 recorders both work seem to work better if I don't have a tape in the camera at all. I haven't used a tape in either one of my cameras in about two years, dozens and dozens of jobs. A lot of my jobs are long recording sessions, depositions, meetings and such. Changing tapes every sixty minutes creates unwelcome interruptions.
I use the 60 mb/s Sandisk CF cards most of the time. But, I have two 30 mb/s SanDisk CF cards that also work reliably. I stick with what the manufacturer recommends.
Since the computer receives from the camera, your fire wire port is probably okay. I've had to have one of my cameras repaired twice for the fire wire port.
If I understand correctly, you did manage to record DV material to the fire store. The clips were really there on the card? If so, then the fire wire port on the recorder is okay too, and the cable.