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I shot a show on my Sony DCR-DVD101 and the footage played back fine on the camera that night. After a long night of shooting, it started giving me C:13:00 on every disc. It can still record on a blank disc, but it won't play anything back, even the test clip I just recorded. So I can't finalize my disc.
The disk is unreadable on my external disk reader. It reads regular full size discs fine, and it even read a different mini disc, but with the discs that have my footage it just says No Media Inserted. I've recovered footage off a bad disc before using ddrescue and ffmpeg in Terminal.
But I'm almost at my wits end. Any advice?

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u/MadeInIran — 13 days ago

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VX2000 Choppy Display?

Recently purchased an “as-is” VX2000 to tinker with. Everything seems to be in order honestly except for something I can’t quite put my finger on. The LCD and subsequent video recordings seem to be really choppy and not nearly as fluid as I see other VX2Ks being. If anyone has any idea as to what this could be please let me know! Tried to get as good of a video as I could

u/blurtheflur — 14 days ago

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My camcorder isnt taking my tapes (JVC GR DVL520EA)

I got this from a relative a few months back, its been working pretty fine up to this point but suddenly it told me to eject and reinsert tape, then when I did the tape wouldnt go back in, then there was a period where the mechanism wouldn't go back in at all, has anyone seen this before?

u/Headsup247 — 12 days ago

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My JVC GR-66 keep making a “bip bip bip” sound when im trying to start it

Hello everyone i got this issue with this JVC GR-66S that I bought it from a garage sale and when I started it for the first time it was working perfectly fine and now its making like i said in the title this weird “bip” sound when im trying to start it, and before it was making a “tac tac tac” sound its really weird i really want to use this camera i got it for cheap and its cool, plss help me !!

u/Kazuto1211 — 14 days ago

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which camcorder format aged the worst?

miniDV, Digital8, DVD, HDD, memory card, VHS-C...

some of these formats are still pretty easy to work with today. others feel like they were designed specifically to make future owners suffer

between dead batteries, proprietary cables, discs that won’t read, tape mechanisms and ancient software, there’s a lot that can go wrong before you even get the footage onto a computer

which format has given you the most trouble over the years?

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u/OwnExit9796 — 13 days ago

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This will be my 2nd camcorder in my collection! (I will get it in Q1 of 2027)

This will be my 2nd camcorder: Panasonic HDC-DX1. I choose it because it's have a full-size HDMI cable so I can connect it to my TV to playing footage or connecting it to a HDMI capture card so I can use it as webcam! (Also useful for making YouTube videos with a hint of late 2000s - early 2010s vibes).

What do you think about my 2nd camcorder?

u/RapidParakeet9647 — 14 days ago