Comments on: Canon XL2

By: Canon xl2 | Honeste

Canon xl2 | Honeste — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:31:34 +0000

[...] Canon XL2 at DVcreators.netThis 35 minute video is a feature tour of the new Canon XL2 camcorder. …. The colour quality captured by my canon xl2 is very dull, for example, … [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:34:15 +0000

HOw do I get this video to play. I click on the link and nothing happens. Is it no longer good?

By: Carl Borsing

Carl Borsing — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:08:02 +0000

This camera is still around after all these years, we’re a photographer business and are “expanding” into videography, Commercials, weddings etc. We have an HD cam that we use but local TV stations here still use 720 x 480..

By: Mick Paddy

Mick Paddy — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:52:15 +0000

Hi Fats,

Did you ever resolve this issue?
I have 2 XL2′s from new and they both record like this.
I edit it out in FCP6 using colour corrector but you have to apply that to EVERY clip.
Major ballache.

Many thanks, mick.

By: MediaNet Workshops and Equip

MediaNet Workshops and Equip — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:10:35 +0000

[...] look better out of the box than any other cam I’ve ever seen. Video Tour of the Canon XL2: http://dvcreators.net/media/demos/xl2featuretour/xl2featuretour.html Price: Asking $2,400 Enquiries: [...]

By: tann

tann — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:32:17 +0000

Hi.
I have canon xl2 pal camcorder and my problem is that when i see from vewfinder it looks ok but when i captur in my pc the picture i think is going to loose.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:31:02 +0000

I saw this vidoe on the Canon website. I was so impressed that I purchased an XL2 and got about a week ago. i love this camera. Now I have to learn how to use it. Does anyone have some tips for me? I can use all the help I can get.

By: studios.phoenix

studios.phoenix — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:20:56 +0000

If I am reading he last post right about not sony decks not being able to read canon written tapes, then I think it’s just a switch on the sony device. Sony cameras record miniDV tapes in two formats, their own, and the general one. So it makes sense that the decks have the switch as well. I have the same cam and have run into this problem with I just take the tape from sony cam and want to play it on canon. If it was recorded in the proprietary format, it’s a no go.

By: Our Production Studio

Our Production Studio — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:22:44 +0000

I had this same issue a few months ago, when I supplied a miniDV tape shot on an XL2, and someone was trying to play the tape in a Sony DV player. They told me the tape was bad, and sent it back. I played it back through the XL2 and it looked perfect.
The problem is an issue with Sony vs. Canon and the way the track width on the miniDV tape itself. Sony thinks the tracks should be “xx” microns wide, Canon thinks they should be “xy” wide. The result is when Sony DV player tries to read the track, it is full of garbage, won’t sync, usually “unplayable”.
To overcome this, see if you can offload the tape through your Canon XL2 using the firewire port, rather than a Sony player.
It’s just a “format difference”, and both Sony and Canon say it’s the other’s problem.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:25:10 +0000

Hi Guys,

Looking to see if you could help me with a problem.

I have had the XL2 for over a yer now and love it. We use it on a cruise ship for multiple purposes. i just came back from vacation ad have been able to use it due to the video that it is capuring is ‘not editable’. This is a warning that I get when I try to dump it to Avid using a sony DV player. (Avid is not giving me the error, the player is) This has never been an issue.

I thought it may be the tapes so I bout new stock and I get the same message. I can take the same tape and use any of my other DVcams and record something and I have no problem and the light on the player that says ‘not editable’ doesn’t come up.

I am confused. I know I am usin the right tapes, plus the ones I had before buying the new ones, worked fine.

I have to believe that a setting in the camera has been changed but i can’t seem to find what it could be.

Any help offered would be appreciated. Thanks in advance…