I am quite new at this and don't even know if I have posted to the correct forum - my apologies if I have erred.

I'll try to keep this short.

I have a couple of MiniDV tapes that I am trying to transfer onto a DVD.

I have two 1 hr tapes that I would like to drop into Ulead Moviemaker to join and burn to the same DVD.

Firstly I connected the camcorder to our standalone DVD player/recorder to transfer the contents to a dvd-r. That seemed to burn fine, did not report any errors and plays well.

When I took the finalized DVD and tried to rip it into the computer to edit and burn unto a new disc the process would not complete due to a corruption/disc read error about mid way through the dvd.

Thinking it was a bad dvd I tried to capture directly to the computer from the camcorder and received the same error at what I guess was the same place so I guess there is some corruption in the source material - the miniDV tape.

I can't get the file into the computer.

Are there any suggestions on what to do next?

Or alternately, solutions that will attempt to repair corruption during the dvd or vid cpature process to the computer.

I am stuck with trying to find out exactly where the corruption is located in the time sequence and try to stop the recording/rip process just prior and jump back in once the source video is correct again?

If I have to go with the latter are there any tools that will tell me exactly where the problem is so that I can surgically only removed the portion that is corrupt.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Update - I got it into the computer by running WinDV - I then ran GSpot and it gave me this message:

File truncated in the "legacy index" area.
· 117 KB (120,320 bytes) are missing
DV Type 2 AVI
Multipart OpenDML AVI (5 parts)
(34373 frames in first part, 0 frames follow)

There is video that I can watch after frame 34373 - I assume I have to edit out 117 kb's of "bad" material to get this thing to work - now how do I do that?