{"id":503,"date":"2013-01-12T16:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-01-12T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:39:31","slug":"canon-zr830-dv-camcorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2013\/01\/12\/canon-zr830-dv-camcorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon ZR830 DV camcorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canon ZR830, like many DV tape recorders, has a very picky firewire setup. Failing to turn off the computer, attaching the device and turning it on, then turning the computer on &#8230; well, if you fail to do that you might (will?) fry the camera&#8217;s firewire circuits and never be able again to get your videos off the camera (I have to take the tape into a shop and they put it on DVD for me).<\/p>\n<p>After looking for solutions to the problem I found a few to try, but first here&#8217;s the proper sequence for attaching the camera to the computer.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Turn off the computer<\/li>\n<li>Attach the AC power to the camera<\/li>\n<li>Attach the camera to the firewire cable (4 pin to 4 pin only) already attached to the computer<\/li>\n<li>Turn on the camera (to Play)<\/li>\n<li>Turn on the computer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t work the best thing is to try the camera on someone else&#8217;s computer (that is known to work with a different camera) to test the firewire cable and the camera itself. Tough to do if you&#8217;re the only person you know who does video work.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a few things to try if it doesn&#8217;t work<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you have the AC power adapter plugged into the camera<\/li>\n<li>Try putting the camera on &#8220;Record&#8221; and then booting the computer. If the camera is recognized then change it to &#8220;Play&#8221; to get your data off it.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you are using a 4 pin to 4 pin firewire cable.<\/li>\n<li>Again, try it on another computer that is know to work (maybe at the camera store?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canon ZR830, like many DV tape recorders, has a very picky firewire setup. Failing to turn off the computer, attaching the device and turning it on, then turning the computer on &#8230; well, if you fail to do that you might (will?) fry the camera&#8217;s firewire circuits and never be able again to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}