[gllphillips]

I have a Canon XM2 video camera, which works fine, but I have an annoying thin black line running at the top of each film which ripples a bit.

I'm not very experienced, indeed i'm still learning, so any help would be appreciated.

[Garrett]

Is this a tape machine? If so the tape may have got picked up wrong and the tracking may be out. I find FF and rew and reloading helps with tapes to get the tracking right again.

[chrishull3]

Originally Posted by gllphillips

I have a Canon XM2 video camera, which works fine, but I have an annoying thin black line running at the top of each film which ripples a bit.

I'm not very experienced, indeed i'm still learning, so any help would be appreciated.

If it does this on direct cam to tv playback, 1 is this a new cam,2 second hand,3 does it do this on more than one tv,4 are the tvs 4x3 or wide screen, finaly what connection are you using.
But this should not be there you could try connecting the cam to your tv and monitor the output from the cam without a tape and if the line is not there you know there is a problem with the recordings.

[gllphillips]

There is no line on the LCD screen when I'm recording (at least I cant see it), just on the MPEG file that I have produced. At the moment I am on 16:9 setting. The camera is 2nd hand and is about three / four years old.

[gllphillips]

I have now discovered that it was my software setting (using Pinnacle Studio) that was causing this problem.