problems while recording on a used tape

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thewheel

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I was recording on an MQ tape for the second time round. I was noticing some strange things such as after i do a zoom in the camcorder does a zoom out by its' own. Then i started seeing footage that was shot the first time round i.e. the one i should have been overwriting. mind you this while recording so i was not even in VCR mode. at this stage i did not know what to think went wrong. then i decided to start recording on a new tape and all these ghostly events stopped. I do not record very much but when i do i usually do this on a new tape, so there were only few times when i recorded on a used tape but those few times none of
this happened.
Any ideas? obviously I would not like to be forced to record on a new tape each time. 10x.
 
Probably it is not the tape, maybe you turned off the camera between shots or reviewed the tape and you got a small gap (tape slided forward) showing the previews footage in the tape. Never saw anything else while recording besides the image lens is getting...

Ulisses
 
..nobody will force you to use a new tape each time.. but i will tell you that you probably should.. and that if your shooting anything important theres no way id ever tell you that using a used tape was ok. its just asking for dropouts and such. i dont see how it would cause the camera to do anything different with its zoom or playback functions, but im not really sure what you were doing there.
 
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