Video is ruined

[David Thrasher]

If you still have your original Hi-8 tapes, you could either see if you could borrow a Hi-8 camcorder from someone, rent one, or take it somewhere to have the missing footage redubbed to DV. If you don't have the original Hi-8 tapes you may be out of luck.



Original message: 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:50:39 -0800
Subject: [MacDV] Video is ruined
From: Steve Demarest <stevedemarest at charter.net>
Message-ID: <BBE92ACF.FB0F%stevedemarest at charter.net>


Dear List:

I updated from a Hi-8 camcorder to a Canon DV. I recorded the Hi-8 tapes
onto DV tapes. I then imported to iMOvie via Firewire. Most of the clips
came through just fine. But a number of them appear ruined. The thumbnails
are fine. But when I try to play them all I get are scrambled multicolor
pixel squares. I would hate to discard this footage of my kids.
Unfortunately I gave away the Hi-8 stuff and have recorded over the DV
tapes. The file sizes of the clips seems to be consistent with the stated
length of each clip. So I am hopeful the data is still there.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Please reply to me directly.
mailto:stevedemarest at charter.net