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Sony VX2000 "semi" dropouts
Hello everyone.
I'm a guy from Denmark, and I'm writing on this forum, since I could use a little help.
About 2 months ago, I decided to get my first "real" camcorder. It was going to be used filming skateboarding. Since a very big part of skateboard companies, use/used to film with the Sony VX1000, or the VX2000, I set my mind on buying one.
I started to look for a used one, in as great condition as possible, but since Denmark, is kind of a small country, and the cost of mini dv type of camcorders, is properly between 3 and 5 times as great, as of those in the US, I decided to look for one on Ebay.
Some days later I found one, at a price around 900$. It was a bit more expensive then the other VX2000's, but it was the only seller, who wanted to send a camcorder all the way to europe.
I made contact with him, to find out if I could trust him, and after 5 days, and alot of emails, I decided to just go for it.
A week later, and ALOT of struggling with DHL, I finally got my camcorder. I put in a brand new Sony DV tape, and started filming right away. After 35 minutes of filming, I downloaded to video to my computer, and everything was just completely ruined. So i viewed the footage through my camcorder, and the video was just fine, but the audio was dropping every 5-6 seconds. I contacted the seller, and he told me, that he had been using Panasonic tapes, all the time he had the camcorder.
So I looked the problem up on Google, and read all about the tape brand mixing thing, an bought a Panasonic tape right away. I recorded 40 minutes on it, and the audio dropouts was still there. But when i downloaded it to my computer, there was way less video dropouts than on the Sony ones, but it was still between every 5 to 10 seconds.
I decided to do some testing, and took the Panasonic tape, and taped the whole tape over, 4 times. I tried filming again for 5 minutes, downloaded to my computer, and the dropouts were gone...
I took a new tape, and tried filming on that one. I put it on my computer, and the dropouts were back. I did the whole recording the tape over 4 times again, filmed my cat for 5 minutes, downloaded it to my computer, an there were no more dropouts...
Although it was kind of weird, recording the tapes over a couple of times, seemed to fix the problem. So I did it to some more tapes, and sometimes it has no effect, sometimes theres still some dropouts there, or even video disorders, and sometimes the problems just go away.
Now... I have played around with my camcorder, each day, for 11 days in a row now (Since I'm at home, due to a dislocated ankle), and I'm REALLY starting to get tired of this problem, having to use 4-6 hours of recording on a single tape, just to make that one tape work (even though it might only be the half of them, that will eventually get to work).
I know its kinda a long text, and most of it might not even matter. But I'm really hoping anyone would have a solution , of even just recognize the problem, because I have tried so many things. I have tried shaking the camera while recording and downloading it to my computer, or holding it close, or away from the computer, or anything the least magnetic. Whatever I do, I cant seem to make up the pattern, which do dropouts, getting video disorders, or work like it should.
I know that dropouts would normally occur if the camcorder needed a head alignment , but that wouldn't explain why the tape suddenly seem to work find after a while (Or would it?)
And a secondary question: I it was a head missalignment, would a harddrive, like one of the FireStore series, fix this? (since the data wouldn't need to go to the tape) A head alignment isn't really an option, since it would properly cost more the the actual camcorder.
I'm hoping someone can help, and again, sorry for the way to long text.
Greetings from Kasper from Denmark.
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