JVC camcorder sd card errors

[Comvidguy]

Have a JVC Pro HD camera, I am using a different brand 32 gig sd #10 sd cards, keep getting card error messages, camera stops recording and says the camera is trying to recover images on the card. It happens in both the A and B slots with different brands of cards. The camera is almost 3 years old and gets a lot of use all in the studio. We use it to capture seminars so it is on for 8 to 9 hours a day for 150 to 200 days a year. The cards are also that old but some of them are brand new, been having the same problem with both. Seems like a camera problem. Can the connections be bad in the camera? any help greatly appreciated.

[smrpix]

Might be electronic, might be mechanical, might be heat, might be any combination of the three.

This may sound glib, but if your camera's less than $2,000 replace it. If it's more, time to have it serviced by a professional. After three years of hard duty it deserves a checkup.

It's also a good idea to reformat your SD cards every now and then in something other than the camera (maybe you do) but that doesn't really seem to be the problem.

[turk690]

The cards are also that old but some of them are brand new, been having the same problem with both. Seems like a camera problem. Can the connections be bad in the camera?

This is a problem associated, not only with camcorders, but any very heavily used SD and mini-SD card reader. Dirt and oxidation has accumulated with the reader contacts and need to be cleaned out. To compound it, these contacts have lost their springiness and do not exert as much pressure as they did on the SD card when they were new, making connectivity hit and miss. Often, opening the thing up and gently prying/bending the contact vanes so that they exert more pressure is the way to go. It's not impossible with that camcorder but it's infinitely more complicated than a stand alone SD card reader or even a smart phone so unless you're an adventurous dyed-in-the-wool techie or you do this for a living, hard to recommend doing that.