Hey there...thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light here...
I've shot about 10 hours on a Sony VX20000 and when I went to transfer them to a hard drive usisng FCP 4.0 with a Sony deck (sorry can't remember the model), the tapes would play weirdly- pixelated, bars, and would stop every minute or so- they just wouldn't play on the deck- even when I tried 'uncontrolled device' setting in FCP, or through Imovie. But they played fine on my camera. The deck would play tapes that I'd shot on another camera just fine, it was only tapes from my vx2000 that wouldn't play.
I then tried another deck, the Sony DSR-11, and the same situation. I also tried playing them on my friend's Sony vx2000, and they were pixelated and would start and stop.
I would just sacrifice the heads of my Sony VX2000 and use them to transfer the footage I shot, but my firewire port is blown. I took it to get the port fixed, but I'm wondering what the heck is going on. The tapes won't play on any other camera or deck, but they play fine on the cam I shot them on.
No one I've talked to has ever seen this. My friend who's deck I tried thought my vx2000 might possibly be 'laying down dirty timecode' and that the decks wouldn't play it? is it a 'tracking' (whatever that is) issue with the camera?
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? It's driving me crazy and has me paranoid that I'll never be able to get my footage off of my tapes so I can edit it.
Please help if you can!!
Thanks so much...
I've shot about 10 hours on a Sony VX20000 and when I went to transfer them to a hard drive usisng FCP 4.0 with a Sony deck (sorry can't remember the model), the tapes would play weirdly- pixelated, bars, and would stop every minute or so- they just wouldn't play on the deck- even when I tried 'uncontrolled device' setting in FCP, or through Imovie. But they played fine on my camera. The deck would play tapes that I'd shot on another camera just fine, it was only tapes from my vx2000 that wouldn't play.
I then tried another deck, the Sony DSR-11, and the same situation. I also tried playing them on my friend's Sony vx2000, and they were pixelated and would start and stop.
I would just sacrifice the heads of my Sony VX2000 and use them to transfer the footage I shot, but my firewire port is blown. I took it to get the port fixed, but I'm wondering what the heck is going on. The tapes won't play on any other camera or deck, but they play fine on the cam I shot them on.
No one I've talked to has ever seen this. My friend who's deck I tried thought my vx2000 might possibly be 'laying down dirty timecode' and that the decks wouldn't play it? is it a 'tracking' (whatever that is) issue with the camera?
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? It's driving me crazy and has me paranoid that I'll never be able to get my footage off of my tapes so I can edit it.

Please help if you can!!
Thanks so much...