corupt camcorder file

[lol1]

I know there is a topic on this but I cant find it.

On sat I had the sony camcorder bolted into a roll cage camera mount. Apart from seeing us pull out of the pits all the recordings stop and says that the file is corupt.

Any ideas?

The camera records onto hard drive if thats any help.

[GreigM]

There's generally too much vibration for HDD camcorders - better with an old tape, or get one which uses memory sticks - because of the vibration the file won't have been written correctly as the write head won't have been able to overcome the vibration and will be unable to write.

[lol1]

My camcorder can take an sd card so is it best to use that?

[dan101smith]

You need IT help and you don't call me? I'm hurt.

Yes, use SD card. My camcorder has dual SD card slots for recording. You'd like it. A lot.

[lol1]

dan101smith said:

You need IT help and you don't call me? I'm hurt.

Yes, use SD card. My camcorder has dual SD card slots for recording. You'd like it. A lot.

Your a sensative little soul arn't you.

What size card have you got Dan and how much time does it record?

Edited by lol1 on Friday 5th March 08:21

[GreigM]

be careful with your choice of camcorder - I have a (very) expensive sony HD camcorder which records to memory stick - useless on track days as the picture becomes very distorted with vibration, whereas my old SD miniDV camcorder works a treat....

[ian964]

GreigM said:

be careful with your choice of camcorder - I have a (very) expensive sony HD camcorder which records to memory stick - useless on track days as the picture becomes very distorted with vibration, whereas my old SD miniDV camcorder works a treat....

Typically modern HD camcorders use CMOS sensors, whereas older ones use CCD sensors. The kind of shutter used on CMOS sensors doesn't handle vibration at all well, hence the distortion. Ideally for in-car use you need something with CCD sensors.

[Paul_M3]

ian964 said:

GreigM said:

be careful with your choice of camcorder - I have a (very) expensive sony HD camcorder which records to memory stick - useless on track days as the picture becomes very distorted with vibration, whereas my old SD miniDV camcorder works a treat....

Typically modern HD camcorders use CMOS sensors, whereas older ones use CCD sensors. The kind of shutter used on CMOS sensors doesn't handle vibration at all well, hence the distortion. Ideally for in-car use you need something with CCD sensors.

I just bought a second hand Panasonic HDC-SD9 for this very reason. It was basically the last normal HD camcorder to use a CCD sensor. It also records to SD card. Seemed to be the best option for recording trackdays. (Although I haven't used it on a trackday yet, so it might be crap!)

[Jon Doe]

First of all, yes Hard Drives dont take as much abuse as tapes or Sd cards.

Also, try and cut down the vibrations as much as possible, even if you get a small amount of foam under the clamp on a rollbar or where it screws between the camcorder and the clamp.

[lol1]

Just ordered a 16GB card and will try it at Brands on the 18th, so fingers crossed it works.