Hi,

My HD-100 has performd perfectly for paying clients, until this week!

The camera shoots fine, records to tape and captures to PC or Mac in DV format.

The camera also would video capture HDV 30fps or HDV 24fps up until yesterday. I loaned the guy who directed our last music video the HD 100 to capture footage into his Mac with Lumiere HD. He says that he captured one clip then the Lumiere HD failed to recognize the camera and HDV 24fps footage the next morning.

I brought the camera home and attempted to re- capture footage I easily captured last week. Oops! The HD-100 is no longer recognized by HD Link, even running the same HDV 30fps video tape that I successfully captured last week.

a) Has any one on DVINFO encountered this failure in the HD-100u?

b) Is it possible the Mac box has damaged the HD-100?

c) Does JVC tech support know of any other users with failure to capture video issues?

Thanks for any help,

Ed Hill

This happened with me about a year ago. My new computer's firewire connector's wires was hooked to the motherboard in the wrong order, and killed my firewire printer, and later my Panasonic DV VTR.
I don't say this happened at your friends place, but may worth to check that Mac computer's wireing

Laszlo

Do not hot swap the HD100's firewire!

In fact, it's not a bad idea to power down both the computer and camera's power before plugging in firewire.

It appears you need to send it to JVC to have them repair the firewire interface.

This has happened to others.

The HD100 manual advices to connect the FW cable (and other cables as well) when the camera is off. I saw the same warning with other devices (my Ozonic keyboard, for example) and always connect my HD100 when it's off. I don't take the same step for my PowerBook but sometimes I put it to sleep, just in case.
A static spike could do a lot of damage.

Yes, it is the FW connection. We had this happen with a SONY VTR (XDCAM). It fried the FW circutry of the VTR and the dealer told us never to hot-swap FW cables. This was on a Mac.

6-pin firewire connectors carry enough voltage to power small firewire drives, and therefore can fry the firewire board on the camera if there is a short. You don't hear about this sort of thing on cameras with the little 4-pin FW connectors.

We have seen this on a few occasions around here. As a general rule, plug the camera in when it is powered off!

However, to be on the safe side, you could buy a cable like this, which disables the bus power in the 6-pin cable.
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/356

Regardless of what they say about "hot swappable," I never plug in or unplug anything that's turned on. I've seen "hot swappable" drives fried when doing that.

Guys,

Thanks for solving the mystery.

I can always count on the DVINFO community to figure these things out.

Ed