freelife2g
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WHen I press start to record on my HV30 there is a 10 second delay before actual recording starts. Is it possible to disable this feature and if so how do I do it? Thanks
Mj
Mj
Canon HV30 How to disable record delay
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freelife2g
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Been doing some reading and I think this is the self timer feature. I am going to turn it off when I get back to my cam and see if that solves the problem.
Barry_Green
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Ten seconds sounds like a lot... the HV30 is a tape camera, so I imagine that the delay you're referencing is it spooling up the tape and getting the heads up to speed? Shouldn't be more than four or five seconds, should it?
Assuming there's nothing physically wrong with your camera and the actual time delay is more like five seconds, that seems like it's probably normal and there's nothing that can be done about it. Sometimes cameras take longer to fire up if they've been left stopped for a while, like the difference between a cold start and a start from a paused position. If you turn the camera on and then start recording, it will take the longest time before the record starts, but if you stop recording and then immediately start again, it should start recording much quicker, right?
Assuming there's nothing physically wrong with your camera and the actual time delay is more like five seconds, that seems like it's probably normal and there's nothing that can be done about it. Sometimes cameras take longer to fire up if they've been left stopped for a while, like the difference between a cold start and a start from a paused position. If you turn the camera on and then start recording, it will take the longest time before the record starts, but if you stop recording and then immediately start again, it should start recording much quicker, right?
David W. Richardson
Chapelgrove Films
I think what he's referring to is a 10-second 'countdown' that appears in the viewfinder/display when he presses the record button. Don't know if that's the self-timer or not.
I'm pretty sure it's just a countdown to make sure that you record at least 10 seconds, ideally before anything important happens. You need this for pre-roll cueing if you ever do batch capturing of select takes. I always just capture the whole tape broken into takes. Don't worry, that ten seconds is recorded.
freelife2g
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I am referring to the 10 sec countdown once the record button is pressed. I tried the self timer. That wasn't it. But I recorded a Birthday party yesterday and when I played back some of my footage today, it seems that recording starts immediately despite the 10 sec countdown.
AndrewGentle
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Yes, I have an HV40 and I can confirm that recording does begin as soon as that counter starts counting down from 10, not when it finishes.
I find it fairly handy while shooting static scenes to cut into video, usually ten seconds is long enough to pull a clip of something not moving.
I find it fairly handy while shooting static scenes to cut into video, usually ten seconds is long enough to pull a clip of something not moving.