[Jon Haas]

Hi Dennis,
I ended up sending these tapes off to Sony Media Services to recover the footage from the tapes. It cost me about $50 a tape but they managed to pull a majority of the footage off successfully with just a few patches of dropped frames per tape. They recovered the media and put it on a new tape for me to recapture myself.

The Price list:

https://mediaservices.sel.sony.com/docs/Service%20Price%20List.pdf

Hope this helps, I understand that feeling of having non-replaceable footage trapped on a tape that won’t show it in playback mode.

jon

[Jon Haas]

It might be an issue with the heads, which may in turn have damaged the tapes permanently(I hope not) but the tapes did record footage and I’m just unable to retrieve it in playback.

It’s not a camera setting issue because I recorded the previous 70 hours and the subsequent hundred hours without changing any of the settings. Likewise for capturing, I never changed any of the settings and managed to capture over a hundred hours except for this 20 tape chunk in the middle of my stack.

Again, I will try fiddling with settings and see if I can’t get it to capture but I have already tried everything I could see with this camera, with a dv tape-deck, both SD, HDV, and Auto. I really think there’s a damage with the tapes themselves but didn’t know if anyone has advice for retrieving footage from dv film separate from playback mode…?
Thanks so much!