I am employing a class 10, 8GB, SD-HC memory card.

Answer by Scott
My guess is that it is simply because your card is too slow. LOL

The specs on the card look fine, format it with the camera and consider once again. It may possibly be a undesirable card. If you went low cost, it may be a counterfeit card (re-labeled class six or lower).

If it does the exact same with a recognized great card, make contact with vivitar for service.

Answer by Dennis C
Hi Diane:

Right up until I saw the specifics of your Question right after just seeing the “headline”, I initial believed this would be a basic Answer of “check your SDHC card’s class-rating”. But commonly a Class 10 card would have a adequate write-speed for HiDef video.

HD 1080 video calls for a more quickly “bit-rate” than Common Def (or even 720p HD) — generally 24Mbps. As a outcome, a extremely quick responding flash card is necessary to store such a large rate of data (this is equivalent to the “bottleneck” of bandwidth attempting to view video on the Internet).

One particular piece of details that would be helpful about your SDHC card is the brand name. SanDisk and Kingston have the greatest Top quality Manage and reputations. Other manufacturers may well not be so “sincere” about their speed ratings & testing. Some makers post the Read-speed and not the WRITE-speed (which is usually slower). Fortunately, camcorder makers place those “also slow” speed error detection widgets to alert the camera operator. A fast workaround is to switch to 720p or a Normal Def (480i for US) for recording with the card you have.

My very best assistance is to take back the SDHC card you get the error on, and either upgrade to a far better brand or have the retailer check a new card in your camera at its highest record rate.

hope this helps,
–Dennis C.