Did you ever get an answer for this problem? I just bought a Canon Vixia hfs30 and started recording and a red horizontal line appeared and won't go away . Also on the recorded footage. Any help would be appreciated.
I've had my camcorder for about 4 months now without any issues. I recorded a film today that worked great, no problems. Tonight I was outside recording and it was working fine, then suddenly I got a thin 1-2 pixel-wide red line running top to bottom straight down the camcorder. I can't seem to turn it off.
Is this a setting I somehow set wrong? Or is my camera broken?
The red line appears on the recorded footage as well ![]()

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