Floop
06-07-2010, 10:43
Hi,
Long story short, took three pieces of video, using three Sony mini DVDs on one of their mini-DVD camcorders.
Disc 1 recorded fine, finalised, ejected, readable on the computer.
Disc 2 seemed to record fine, but at ehd, refused to finalise, came up with 'video recording disabled', ejected, but not readable on computer or camera.
Disc 3 recorded fine, finalised, ejected, readable on the computer.
Obviously Disc 2 is the problem. My understanding is that these cameras write to disc as they go along, and all they do at the end is 'finalise' the disc to make it readable. This obviously didn't happen with Disc 2.
What I want to do is get the video data off of Disc 2. When I instert it into a PC, I can see the disc and the structure but there is nothing of any substance in there.
This is because I believe that the PC is only seeing an old partition, and that had the disc been finalised properly, the disc would then show the newly recorded video data.
However, as the disc has NOT been finalised, I have a problem.
The camcorder refuses to finalise the disc, and it just says "video recording disabled" onscreen when this disc is in the machine. I cannot see or playback and videoclips from this disc on the camcorder.
However, my feeling is the data MUST be on the disc, because it records as it goes along, and if the data is on the disc then there must be a way to get it off the disc!
I have tried a few things, e.g. Isobuster and a program called DVD inspector, but they just see the 'old' partition, and not the data which I believe is on the disc but which has not been finalised.
Has anybody got any helpful suggestions of how I can find and get at the video data?
Many thanks!
Floop
Long story short, took three pieces of video, using three Sony mini DVDs on one of their mini-DVD camcorders.
Disc 1 recorded fine, finalised, ejected, readable on the computer.
Disc 2 seemed to record fine, but at ehd, refused to finalise, came up with 'video recording disabled', ejected, but not readable on computer or camera.
Disc 3 recorded fine, finalised, ejected, readable on the computer.
Obviously Disc 2 is the problem. My understanding is that these cameras write to disc as they go along, and all they do at the end is 'finalise' the disc to make it readable. This obviously didn't happen with Disc 2.
What I want to do is get the video data off of Disc 2. When I instert it into a PC, I can see the disc and the structure but there is nothing of any substance in there.
This is because I believe that the PC is only seeing an old partition, and that had the disc been finalised properly, the disc would then show the newly recorded video data.
However, as the disc has NOT been finalised, I have a problem.
The camcorder refuses to finalise the disc, and it just says "video recording disabled" onscreen when this disc is in the machine. I cannot see or playback and videoclips from this disc on the camcorder.
However, my feeling is the data MUST be on the disc, because it records as it goes along, and if the data is on the disc then there must be a way to get it off the disc!
I have tried a few things, e.g. Isobuster and a program called DVD inspector, but they just see the 'old' partition, and not the data which I believe is on the disc but which has not been finalised.
Has anybody got any helpful suggestions of how I can find and get at the video data?
Many thanks!
Floop