turned out not to be so handy, oh the irony.
When I borrowed it I was asked if I wanted one that was SD, obviousley I heard wrong, as its "DV" that was probably actually said as thats what the camera is, I thought oh yeah, I got loads of SD cards at home, mega.
Well I got it home and then realized its pro duo cards, I thought this was a blessing as I had larger capacity versions of those cards, so I grabbed my 2GB one and inserted it, life went downhill from there on.
It was saying, "movie recording on memory stick is not supported" GAH! So I thought maybe i need to reformat it, reformatted it a thousand times and still nothing, so I thought ill see if I can take pictures on it.
WOW presto it did, now I was confused, it will take pictures, and for some reason won't record, I phoned a friend and asked him about his, well turns out, to his knowledge all the Sony cams he has used recently have inbuilt hard drive, and I assumed that this camera might be a little older (what do I know) anyway.
still nothing, So I phoned, emailed etc to Shaun.
at this point I am in panic mode, only a few days left and need to film this, so I try a multitude of useless methods to maybe get this to work.
So I get an idea, download the PDF of the camera and read it, sounds simple, but ended up causing more confusion.
here is the confusion.
This means, from what I could make of it, that it CAN record, says so itself.But meant i needed a different card maybe?
This is all getting very confusing very quickly.
Today, I decided enoughs enough, and headed into Norwich, which was a last resort as it will use £10 fuel, £5 parking, eating £5-10 anyway works out very bad for keeping up with rent if I make more trips than need be and with the looming tuition charges around the corner I rarely make this decision to go to Norwich on "hunches" .
First stop "WHERE IN THE WORLD PC WORLD" More like WHERE IN THE WORLD IS A PRO DUO THATS NOT A MAGICGATE TYPE?!?!" I'll tell you, it can't exist, they sent me next door to Curry's, who told me to try Maplins, who told me they don't exist (but the user manual thinks they do) but don't worry, they sent me to the SONY center in Chapelfeild shopping center, I parked, and headed into the mall, the SONY center was amazing, they too could not work this out, I told them to check the user guide, and after about a hour of them talking rubbish they came to the conclusion that there might be a chance that a smaller card, put in an adapter thats not magicgate might work. anyway, this was unless, so I phoned Phil, my backup, and asked if he could txt Shaun's number, maybe I was ringing the wrong one?
well he sent me the text and i had the right number, so I figured if anyone could help he's the man.
I rung it 3-4 times, nothing, I was alone, So I went to see Phil in person, the other side of the main shopping section of the city, found him, borrowed his swipe card and hoped I could find either Shaun or Marcus, went to see Shaun first, gate is closed, crap I forgot the University was closed today, but maybe the DV suite is open? no its not.
So one last ring, before I head home broken and defeated, and he picked up, turns out, regardless of disorientating manuals they just can't record onto memorysticks, i'd have to buy DV tapes £12 more cost -_- and then have to go home and film it, oh wait, did I mention i can't edit it at home now, because the tapes are HD and it would be a slow process, which means another load of expense as I have to go in tomorrow, the same day of filming, and edit it, then travelle in thursday again to hand everything in, I will be officially poor by the end of this, anyway, wanted to get my point across.
The link to the Page for the User manual for the "HDR-HC3 HDV1080i/miniDV" which Is the camcorder in question.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=HDRHC3
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