Hey guys,
So I'm trying to clear footage from Sony HDV tapes, I can't find any sortof setting to wipe them off. I guess I could shoot black for 62 mins somewhere quiet, but I'm curious if there is a way to manually wipe the tapes inboard back to default blue screen etc. Any suggestions so appreciated, Thanks

We used a Garner CDS-3500A belt degausser it'll do it in 2 mins with one pass but they're very expensive.

Degausser Information (http://www.garner-products.com/prod-info.htm)

For a one off exercise you need a similar rig like that, try calling your local TV and radio outlets, or call this crowd for a one off job, they're not far fom you.
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Before you start running it, put your credit cards in a safe place and take your watch off, it'll rip the hands off it :)
Not really but it will erase the magnetic strip on your credit cards .. clean as a whistle :)

Cheers.

I kinda curious as to why you're trying to wipe HDV tapes, unless you're trying to destroy some evidence.

If taping over them with new video doesn't obliterate anything already there, there's a fault with your camera, so there's no reason to blank them using an external device.


CS

With 100 recorded tapes, I'd always bulk erase them and go out of my way to do it.

Taping over them to wipe existing footage would be a long term pain. You'd have 2 piles, erased and non erased with the likelyhood of mixing them together.

And in practical terms, if you just record over the top of a full tape of existing video recordings, you'll always have trouble finding the end of your latest take with the End Search function.

In 99% of cases, your machine will fast forward to the end of the previous unwanted material.

Cheers.

I kinda curious as to why you're trying to wipe HDV tapes, unless you're trying to destroy some evidence.

If taping over them with new video doesn't obliterate anything already there, there's a fault with your camera, so there's no reason to blank them using an external device.


CS

Chris,
I want to wipe the tapes so I can possibly sell them used online. Some tapes have footage from the previous owner, which I had no problem shooting over/importing footage etc. so they're still pretty usable. I'm just going to tape black over it all.

With 100 recorded tapes, I'd always bulk erase them and go out of my way to do it.

Taping over them to wipe existing footage would be a long term pain. You'd have 2 piles, erased and non erased with the likelyhood of mixing them together.

And in practical terms, if you just record over the top of a full tape of existing video recordings, you'll always have trouble finding the end of your latest take with the End Search function.

In 99% of cases, your machine will fast forward to the end of the previous unwanted material.

Cheers.

thanks for the info.I see what you mean
hmm..

Warner,

Mini DV tapes sell almost for pennies nowadays; adding 100 hours to the counter of your HD100 will diminish the value of the camera more than what you would get selling those tapes... if you can sell them... no videographer in his right mind will buy used tapes for $2 when he can get new ones for $3. Not worth the risk of dropouts.

Yeah, I must've been looking at the wrong prices for the wrong tapes on Ebay. Definitely not worth the trouble!

I kinda curious as to why you're trying to wipe HDV tapes, unless you're trying to destroy some evidence.

CS

Are you a copper??

Nope, probably closer to Zinc, on reflection.


CS

thank you Britten...

Betcha you don't know the other one, good luck.


CS

Dont want to thanks.