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Recover Jammed and Damaged Tape – I Hope! Arrrrrrrgh…
Well, yes. Tape jammed, DSR is frozen, important footage on tape. Scary….
Primary Question: Is there anyone who could take my probably damaged tape (broken/cut/bad cassette?) and make a dub of it?
– Contact info?
– (I can’t lean on producer friends in case the tape jams their deck too.)
– (The local techs are not up to recovering a damaged/broken/cut tape that they remove from the deck)Secondary Question: The ideal: I drive/overnight the deck to a tech who could remove the tape; service the DSR as needed; make a dub of the bad tape; overnight it back. Possible? Who do you recommend? The DSR 11 is under warranty.
Third Question: Help! What do I know? Any suggestions are welcome! *Are there any magic button combinations to use to force ejection or ?
COMPONENTS
Deck: Sony DSR 11
Tape: Sony MiniDV DVM60 – ME
Footage: “Priceless”THE PROBLEM:
Tape is jammed in a threaded position (or partially threaded – or maybe the rewind/FFwd position). DSR11 is now in a “mid-action loop”. That is, it cycles through trying to either finish threading or ejecting or ? – over and over (brief pause between cycles). It does NOT respond to any button press, AND it won’t respond to the power button. To stop it, I disconnect the power cable.PRE-PROBLEM:
Odd sound (not too significant sound) while rewinding from the end of the recently shot tape. No time code showing (read?) while rewinding. It stopped rewinding, on its own, prior to head of tape. While playing, it presented no picture nor time code. While either rewinding or fast forwarding it came to a stop in the current condition.Ouch-man, this is b a d . Any ideas out there????
Thank you MUCH!
(Calling me is cool… 619 743 5566)
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4 Replies
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Not entirely sure about the DSR11, but when our DSR-1500 gets tapes stuck in it, you can unscrew the case and *gently* with rubber needlenose pliers lift the tape out of the tape path and get the thing out of there. It’s really not too hard. But chances are this will ruin whatever bits of info are on that particular part of the tape, but the rest should be ok for a once-through to get it salvaged off.
sounds like your tape is having tension problems – hence the noise,losing timecode, and not rewinding the whole way. could also be the DSR tension rollers are a bit wacky too. Whenever you have DV tapes that are moving from temperate extremes, or have been used in a camera that stops, records, stops, etc…. always let the tape sit in your edit bay for a couple hours to stabilize the temperature and humidity, and then FFing the tape to the end and rewinding it completely to re-tension.
good luck
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Thank you, Charlie. The tape, both the exposed part and the cassette itself are locked into position so it will take a tech to get it out.
But thank you very much for good habits for the future!
Thanks, Ralph
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[RChaney942] “*Are there any magic button combinations to use to force ejection or ?”
Can you display the data on a monitor to see if there is an error code? I don’t have a service manual for a dsr11 but if there is a “magic way out” you need the error code. Then maybe google it for the “how to”
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Thanks, Rennie…
I’ll check for display options and then investigate from there. Great idea. Later today I’ll just take it to the tech I know. The deck may need tape path work…? Or maybe it’s the individual cassette…?
Thanks…
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