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Can you recover lost scenes on a finalized DVD-R?

Jun 18, 2006 11:08AM PDT

Hi. I'm John. I just bought a Canon CD-100 and we took it on vacation and videoed 24 scenes on a DVD-R. I noticed a couple of times it couldn't read the DVD and produced an error message. I had three black scenes in the middle of the disk. However it began working again and we used it and played those scenes from the camcorder just fine. When I went to finalize this morning it went up to the unreadable scenes and made the rest of the scenes behind the blank screens unreadable. So again: Scenes 1-12 readable, 13-15 unreadable 16-24 readable. Then after finalize it just made 1-12 readable. Is there software that will let me read scenes 16-24? I went up to Best Buy and the Geek Squad thinks I might have a bad disk. Duh! I bought some DVD-RWs today and it doesn't want to read them either! Thanks for any help you might be able to share. John in Lombard IL

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No real fix but what I would try.
Jun 18, 2006 11:16PM PDT

1. ISOBUSTER if needed to get the files off the media and onto the PC.

2. VLCPLAYER on the PC to see if it will play the scene.

I hold out NO HOPE for playback on the DVD camcorder. Your story is deja vu for some DVD camcorder owners. I'd squawk for an exchange. If the issue persists on the new unit, then squawk to get out of this failed make/model for some miniDV model.

Bob

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maybe on a PC,,then maybe not.
Jun 22, 2006 1:06AM PDT
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Thanks for confirming DVD Camcorders are not the way to go.
Jun 25, 2006 12:40PM PDT

I want to thank those for the advise to take my DVD camcorder back. The units just are not perfected yet. And it sort of makes sense. Would you move around your tabletop DVD recorder around like you would your camcorder while recording? NO!! The chances of a bump while recording are huge and the DVD will not finalize properly. We went back to Best Buy and traded it in for a Sony MiniDV Handycam DCR-HC46. We are happy now.

John