Sony Dvd Camcorder - Troubleshoot

[greeneyes36]

Here's my problem: I took video of daughters 1st tball game last saturday... awesome pics captured... got home, tballer wanted to watch the video. We popped the DVD-R out of the camcorder, put it into dvd player hooked to tv... said "loading"... could hear crunchy sort of noises..thought it was taking too long, something not right... took it out, put it back in for a 2nd try. same thing. took it out.. put it back into DVD camcorder... hit the playback button... ALL my video i'd taken that day and the day before was GONE... there were 4 screens of video i'd taken earlier in the month...but the tball games and daughter singing GONE. I ran down, read through the owners manual of DVD cam... said i needed to "finalize" the dvd before playing in dvd players or it could malfunction of some sort. We never "deleted" the images from the DVD-R... does anyone know if there is possibly a way to find out if the images are "hidden" on the DVD-R or did i really delete all that video footage by putting it in the dvd player w/out finalizing it first??? If someone knows anything about these,...please let me know.... Ready to cry... little one had a high pop ball hit to her and she CAUGHT it... surprised her and the look was priceless... and i LOST IT!!!

 

[GWguy]

IF you have a DVD writer in your PC, you could try recover it from there. I've had this happen before, where a CD was not "finished". When I tried to access it with the CD writing software (not sure which I was using at the time...) found the disk was not finished and asked if I wanted to finish it. It was fine after that.

 

[greeneyes36]

Ah...I'll try that. Guess this is what i get for not reading the manual first... i did - when i first bought it back in december... but thought i had a DVD-RW in the camera - which doesnt need finalizing. teach me to pay better attention!! thanks so much for the tip....

 

[bfncbs1]

Here's my problem: I took video of daughters 1st tball game last saturday... awesome pics captured... got home, tballer wanted to watch the video. We popped the DVD-R out of the camcorder, put it into dvd player hooked to tv... said "loading"... could hear crunchy sort of noises..thought it was taking too long, something not right... took it out, put it back in for a 2nd try. same thing. took it out.. put it back into DVD camcorder... hit the playback button... ALL my video i'd taken that day and the day before was GONE... there were 4 screens of video i'd taken earlier in the month...but the tball games and daughter singing GONE. I ran down, read through the owners manual of DVD cam... said i needed to "finalize" the dvd before playing in dvd players or it could malfunction of some sort. We never "deleted" the images from the DVD-R... does anyone know if there is possibly a way to find out if the images are "hidden" on the DVD-R or did i really delete all that video footage by putting it in the dvd player w/out finalizing it first??? If someone knows anything about these,...please let me know.... Ready to cry... little one had a high pop ball hit to her and she CAUGHT it... surprised her and the look was priceless... and i LOST IT!!!

If it was a DVD-R and you can see video's from earlier in the month my guess is the disk has already been finalized.......Meaning you never"really" recorded the T-Ball game....


Question is could you playback in your DVD player the footage from earlier in the month? If so that pretty much proves the disc was already finalized.

If not put the disc back in your camera and finalize it and re-try playing back on the DVD player.

Good Luck!