Various posts concerning GR-HD1U and JY-HD10U

Mick Isdes · June 2nd, 2006, 02:29 PM

Varizoom has put out a new model LED light. Looks to be good, http://www.varizoom.com/accessoriesindex.html#led

Jack McTigue · June 27th, 2006, 12:53 PM

Ok, I've got a major tech question and its blowing my mind. While viewing/capturing tapes shot using HDV 30p there seems to be digital artifacts that crop up at different portions of the durration. They never seem to occur at the same time and have been noticed on two different HDV decks (one being a sony deck and the other being during playback in the camera). Does anyone have an Idea as to where the problem is coming from? This has never happend in the past and I'm are really confused. Thanks.

Frank Hool · July 10th, 2006, 08:25 AM

just did some search and looked through sticked threads. No luck :( .
Can anyone point some feature sheet where such data is given.

Frank Hool · July 11th, 2006, 07:07 AM

it's 5.2mm-52mm. Depends of focal length or zoom ratio. There: http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...1-compared.htm

Still looking same data for hd10.

Mark Light · July 24th, 2006, 03:32 PM

This is best all understood if you have a GR-HD1 and or have heard the audio from one. So a few months back my camera started producing audio with pops and large amounts of hiss/ crackling. I tried to clean it to see if that helped, but it did not. So recently (about 2 months ago) I sent it to JVC for repair. After two months of intense frustration from dealing with their service ( they kept telling me that they'd call me "tomorrow" - that lasted for a month and a half , and emailing JVC also did NO good, but hey thats another story and I'm getting angry just thinking about it) I now have my camera back. Well they didn't fix it at all. So now I've contemplated going postal- anyways, I would just like to get a little feedback from you guys to make sure I'm not crazy and maybe some suggestions- I've posted 2 links to a .zip file with 3 audio clips I've taken. One with just using the onboard audio, one using a rode video mic plugged into the camera, and one using the rode video mic with a minidisk recorder. They were all taken at the same place- outside. some things I'd like feedback on-

1) I do have a problem right?
2) what does your audio from your JVC GR-HD1 sound like? better than mine I hope.
3) what should I do to get it repaired, and get it repaired right.
4)Should the audio should sound better when I have the rode video mic plugged into the camera? I think I can still hear traces of the crackling/hissing from it. I might be wrong.

This has just been a very frustrating experience, and has costs me lots of time and money. Any help is appreciated.

Here are the links to the audio:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G5SF0ZUE

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...BE5CF669FFCEAD

Ken Hodson · July 25th, 2006, 08:11 PM

As I understand it, the problem didn't exist then it did. Correct? Do you still have a contact for the JVC repair depot you sent it to, Either phone, or email? I would follow up with them, in a very agressive manner. Daily! Keep it simple. "My cam worked fine, developed audio problems, I sent it in, it was returned un-repaired." Keep hammering this message at your contacts untill you recieve a proper responce. You could also try an official complaint to JVC about your experience of a pathetic repair service.
On another note, is there a local authorized repair depot? I live near Vancouver BC Canada and there is one or more there. The benefit is it isn't being sent of to corporate where no one answers the phone. You can call up and ask, what up?

Darrin McMillan · August 1st, 2006, 06:17 AM

Sorry I'm a bit late with the footage, but my schedule got a little hecktic. Ok so here it is...Its nothing special.. The settings are as follows;
JVC jyhd10u
Manual Focus
720p / 30 fps shutter
auto white balance
no Color correction
No ACG

The download link is: http://www.sendspace.com/file/h3vtia

enjoy...I think it's a pretty decent example of what the camera can do with little effort. With manual White balance it would have been much better..but I wanted to see how the camera would handle it.

Ken Hodson · August 3rd, 2006, 08:25 PM

Good work Darrin. I see no one has thanked you yet so, kudo's.
One suggestion I would have for you is to zoom into an area of your shot you want focused. Leave auto focus on. Let it settle. Then switch to manual focus. This will lock you into nice high resolution focus. Something which is impossible to do from the LCD or view finder. You footage is very soft and it is do to lack of proper focus. Your effort is appreciated none the less. What city was that by the way?

Darrin McMillan · August 4th, 2006, 06:13 AM

Hi Ken,
The City is Kingston in Ontario Canada. About 2hrs east of Toronto.That is great advice for the Zoom. I usually do exactly that. Sometimes when it's low light the auto focus has difficulty or is a bit slow...so I tough it out manually... In this case I guess I should have used an external monitor.But your are spot on with it helping the focus. Thank you for the comments and suggestions. Always good to hear from you.

Darrin

Zach Love · August 20th, 2006, 02:24 PM

Anyone have an opinion of what a good general use tripod for the HD1/HD10 would be?

I shoot ENG at my day job, so I'm very used to the Oconnor Quick Deployment Tripods (which I just love) & Sachtler Hot Pods. But I can't afford anything as nice as those sticks & wanted to hear what others use.

Hugo Pinto · August 21st, 2006, 04:37 AM

I use an el-cheapo Manfrotto 200$ tripod with a fluid video head.

Works like a charm.

Hugo

Roy A Kerwood · August 28th, 2006, 12:03 PM

My camera was working fine then this morning i got a messahe about "being in protect mode to remove the tape. After i did that and changed the battery the camera will not load a tape!
I am wondering if I can fix tthis myself/
Has anyone got any ideas. I've had to replace the on off switch (it just fell off) I'm disappojnted in the quality of ths unit but i have so much invested in it I cannot afford to give it up just yet.
any ideas?

Roy

Scott Frase · September 6th, 2006, 12:55 PM

Guys,
As a test of the import/export feature, I pull off about 30 seconds of HD video from my HD10U using the JVC HD Capture Utility. The import works fine as I can see the resulting file and play it back in VLC. However, when I take this same file and Export it using the same JVC utility, the export fails with the message "cannot decode audio or video". I've tried a different tape, starting the export a few minutes into the tape versus at the beginning and similar tweaks/reboots/restarts but nothing seems to help.

I searched the forum and found a few people had similar issues, but I never found a resolution.

Has anyone seen this error and could tell me the solution?
scott

Bill Parker · September 14th, 2006, 07:11 AM

Does anyone make a wide-angle lens for the HD10? Century Optics doesn't seem to.

Ken Hodson · September 16th, 2006, 12:43 AM

It would need to have a 52mm thread. A quick google search found me this:

http://www.zoommania.com/walens52mm.html

I would suggest a search of this forum as I am sure we discussed this back in the day.

June 2nd, 2006, 02:29 PM	#406
Mick Isdes Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: HI Posts: 93	Varizoom has put out a new model LED light. Looks to be good, http://www.varizoom.com/accessoriesindex.html#led __________________ _________ Mick

June 27th, 2006, 12:53 PM	#407
Jack McTigue New Boot Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 16	Digital Break up while viewing/capturing tapes Ok, I've got a major tech question and its blowing my mind. While viewing/capturing tapes shot using HDV 30p there seems to be digital artifacts that crop up at different portions of the durration. They never seem to occur at the same time and have been noticed on two different HDV decks (one being a sony deck and the other being during playback in the camera). Does anyone have an Idea as to where the problem is coming from? This has never happend in the past and I'm are really confused. Thanks. __________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/francisburns "What the studios want now is "risk-free" films but with any sort of art you have to take risks. Not taking risks in art is like not having sex and then expecting there to be children." -Francis Ford Coppola

July 10th, 2006, 08:25 AM	#408
Frank Hool Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Barca Spain Posts: 384	Minimum Focusing Distance (MFD) just did some search and looked through sticked threads. No luck :( . Can anyone point some feature sheet where such data is given.

July 11th, 2006, 07:07 AM	#409
Frank Hool Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Barca Spain Posts: 384	hd1 it's 5.2mm-52mm. Depends of focal length or zoom ratio. There: http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...1-compared.htm Still looking same data for hd10.

July 24th, 2006, 03:32 PM	#410
Mark Light Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 55	Need Major help- Audio problems, and problems with JVC in general This is best all understood if you have a GR-HD1 and or have heard the audio from one. So a few months back my camera started producing audio with pops and large amounts of hiss/ crackling. I tried to clean it to see if that helped, but it did not. So recently (about 2 months ago) I sent it to JVC for repair. After two months of intense frustration from dealing with their service ( they kept telling me that they'd call me "tomorrow" - that lasted for a month and a half , and emailing JVC also did NO good, but hey thats another story and I'm getting angry just thinking about it) I now have my camera back. Well they didn't fix it at all. So now I've contemplated going postal- anyways, I would just like to get a little feedback from you guys to make sure I'm not crazy and maybe some suggestions- I've posted 2 links to a .zip file with 3 audio clips I've taken. One with just using the onboard audio, one using a rode video mic plugged into the camera, and one using the rode video mic with a minidisk recorder. They were all taken at the same place- outside. some things I'd like feedback on- 1) I do have a problem right? 2) what does your audio from your JVC GR-HD1 sound like? better than mine I hope. 3) what should I do to get it repaired, and get it repaired right. 4)Should the audio should sound better when I have the rode video mic plugged into the camera? I think I can still hear traces of the crackling/hissing from it. I might be wrong. This has just been a very frustrating experience, and has costs me lots of time and money. Any help is appreciated. Here are the links to the audio: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G5SF0ZUE http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...BE5CF669FFCEAD

July 25th, 2006, 08:11 PM	#411
Ken Hodson Trustee Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 1,315	As I understand it, the problem didn't exist then it did. Correct? Do you still have a contact for the JVC repair depot you sent it to, Either phone, or email? I would follow up with them, in a very agressive manner. Daily! Keep it simple. "My cam worked fine, developed audio problems, I sent it in, it was returned un-repaired." Keep hammering this message at your contacts untill you recieve a proper responce. You could also try an official complaint to JVC about your experience of a pathetic repair service. On another note, is there a local authorized repair depot? I live near Vancouver BC Canada and there is one or more there. The benefit is it isn't being sent of to corporate where no one answers the phone. You can call up and ask, what up? __________________ Damnit Jim, I'm a film maker not a sysytems tech.

August 1st, 2006, 06:17 AM	#412
Darrin McMillan Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kingston, Ontario Posts: 96	HD10u Night Footage Sorry I'm a bit late with the footage, but my schedule got a little hecktic. Ok so here it is...Its nothing special.. The settings are as follows; JVC jyhd10u Manual Focus 720p / 30 fps shutter auto white balance no Color correction No ACG The download link is: http://www.sendspace.com/file/h3vtia enjoy...I think it's a pretty decent example of what the camera can do with little effort. With manual White balance it would have been much better..but I wanted to see how the camera would handle it.

August 3rd, 2006, 08:25 PM	#413
Ken Hodson Trustee Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 1,315	Good work Darrin. I see no one has thanked you yet so, kudo's. One suggestion I would have for you is to zoom into an area of your shot you want focused. Leave auto focus on. Let it settle. Then switch to manual focus. This will lock you into nice high resolution focus. Something which is impossible to do from the LCD or view finder. You footage is very soft and it is do to lack of proper focus. Your effort is appreciated none the less. What city was that by the way? __________________ Damnit Jim, I'm a film maker not a sysytems tech.

August 4th, 2006, 06:13 AM	#414
Darrin McMillan Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kingston, Ontario Posts: 96	Thanks Ken Hi Ken, The City is Kingston in Ontario Canada. About 2hrs east of Toronto.That is great advice for the Zoom. I usually do exactly that. Sometimes when it's low light the auto focus has difficulty or is a bit slow...so I tough it out manually... In this case I guess I should have used an external monitor.But your are spot on with it helping the focus. Thank you for the comments and suggestions. Always good to hear from you. Darrin

August 20th, 2006, 02:24 PM	#415
Zach Love Major Player Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 944	a good tripod for HD1/HD10? Anyone have an opinion of what a good general use tripod for the HD1/HD10 would be? I shoot ENG at my day job, so I'm very used to the Oconnor Quick Deployment Tripods (which I just love) & Sachtler Hot Pods. But I can't afford anything as nice as those sticks & wanted to hear what others use.

August 21st, 2006, 04:37 AM	#416
Hugo Pinto Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 92	I use an el-cheapo Manfrotto 200$ tripod with a fluid video head. Works like a charm. Hugo

August 28th, 2006, 12:03 PM	#417
Roy A Kerwood Tourist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 2	My HD1 will not load tape My camera was working fine then this morning i got a messahe about "being in protect mode to remove the tape. After i did that and changed the battery the camera will not load a tape! I am wondering if I can fix tthis myself/ Has anyone got any ideas. I've had to replace the on off switch (it just fell off) I'm disappojnted in the quality of ths unit but i have so much invested in it I cannot afford to give it up just yet. any ideas? Roy __________________ Always curious Always curtious

September 6th, 2006, 12:55 PM	#418
Scott Frase Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Jersey City, NJ Posts: 48	exporting from PC to cam error Guys, As a test of the import/export feature, I pull off about 30 seconds of HD video from my HD10U using the JVC HD Capture Utility. The import works fine as I can see the resulting file and play it back in VLC. However, when I take this same file and Export it using the same JVC utility, the export fails with the message "cannot decode audio or video". I've tried a different tape, starting the export a few minutes into the tape versus at the beginning and similar tweaks/reboots/restarts but nothing seems to help. I searched the forum and found a few people had similar issues, but I never found a resolution. Has anyone seen this error and could tell me the solution? scott

September 14th, 2006, 07:11 AM	#419
Bill Parker Major Player Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Cambridge MA Posts: 207	Wide angle lens for HD10 Does anyone make a wide-angle lens for the HD10? Century Optics doesn't seem to.

September 16th, 2006, 12:43 AM	#420
Ken Hodson Trustee Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 1,315	It would need to have a 52mm thread. A quick google search found me this: http://www.zoommania.com/walens52mm.html I would suggest a search of this forum as I am sure we discussed this back in the day. __________________ Damnit Jim, I'm a film maker not a sysytems tech.