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Chris Fritsche · February 1st, 2006, 10:46 PM

ok, I went and shot some video today of go-kart racing. I got excited to play the footage, opend FCP, and started to capture, at first I was just watching and waiting to set an out point, and all of a sudden the color bars came up, even though the video was playing and I could see the picture on the camera.
I stopped it, rewond and played again, same thing.
So i decide to capture, it started "batch capture" and then stopped after 4 sec's. the error message said there was something wrong with the tape.
I also tried the tape in my XL2, same thing.
So I then grabbed another blank tape from the same package, recorded a few minutes of footage and did the same thing, once again the same error happend, the wierd part is it also didn't capture any audio, however every few secs, I can hear loud crackling and static?

I played some tapes that I know work, and they did, would "bad" tapes cause this, I am worried now, because I needed this footage, now I have to re-shoot.
Can the firestore record without a tape in the deck?

Chris C. Corfield · February 1st, 2006, 10:50 PM

Yes the firestore can record with no tape in it. In the menu set it to dv and set the Firestore to tapeless operation.

Chris Fritsche · February 2nd, 2006, 07:23 AM

any ideas on whats wrong with the camera?

Chris C. Corfield · February 3rd, 2006, 03:34 PM

Sorry I have no idea. I recently purchased my camera, and have shot about 2hrs on tape. I then got a Firestore and haven't touched the tapes since.

Sorry
Chris

February 1st, 2006, 10:46 PM	#1
Chris Fritsche Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston, TX (Cypress to be exact) Posts: 169	Something weird happened ok, I went and shot some video today of go-kart racing. I got excited to play the footage, opend FCP, and started to capture, at first I was just watching and waiting to set an out point, and all of a sudden the color bars came up, even though the video was playing and I could see the picture on the camera. I stopped it, rewond and played again, same thing. So i decide to capture, it started "batch capture" and then stopped after 4 sec's. the error message said there was something wrong with the tape. I also tried the tape in my XL2, same thing. So I then grabbed another blank tape from the same package, recorded a few minutes of footage and did the same thing, once again the same error happend, the wierd part is it also didn't capture any audio, however every few secs, I can hear loud crackling and static? I played some tapes that I know work, and they did, would "bad" tapes cause this, I am worried now, because I needed this footage, now I have to re-shoot. Can the firestore record without a tape in the deck?

February 1st, 2006, 10:50 PM	#2
Chris C. Corfield Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 44	Yes the firestore can record with no tape in it. In the menu set it to dv and set the Firestore to tapeless operation.

February 2nd, 2006, 07:23 AM	#3
Chris Fritsche Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston, TX (Cypress to be exact) Posts: 169	any ideas on whats wrong with the camera?

February 3rd, 2006, 03:34 PM	#4
Chris C. Corfield Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 44	Sorry I have no idea. I recently purchased my camera, and have shot about 2hrs on tape. I then got a Firestore and haven't touched the tapes since. Sorry Chris