Brand new HVX200 randomly started digitally garbling video footage.

[David Tate]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll definitely do that from now on.

But I don’t understand how that would affect the footage on a P2 card that’s been formatted and not yet connected to a computer. Does importing directly off a P2 in FCP permanently ruin an HVX’s P2 mechanism?

[David Tate]

I just checked my camera’s firmware version. It’s v4.06-00-0.00, the same as the most current version. Guess that’s not the problem. :/

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Tate] “Does importing directly off a P2 in FCP permanently ruin an HVX’s P2 mechanism?”

No, it’s a bug with Macs. Don’t really know why. It happens sometimes and not all the time.

Do you still have the cards backed up?

Jeremy

[David Tate]

Well, I guess what’s confusing me is that everything I try to record to any of my P2 cards now looks like this, regardless of whether or not it has been connected to a computer after being formatted.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Alright, that’s different.

If you play the card in camera it looks like this? Time to take it in.

[David Tate]

Ah, that’s what I thought, Jeremy. Well, since we’ve only had the camera for about 4 days, I’m sure we can just return it and get a new one.

Quite a bummer, though, overall.

Thanks for your help everyone!