DVD from camcorder won't transfer

[mrtunes]

hi sorry if this has been posted many times but i'm in an emergency. footage was shot on a hitachi camcorder. the disc was closed, and then when placed into a pc dvd drive, the files won't transfer without an error.

doing a normal transfer in windows doesn't work, neither does using any dvd extraction tools like dvd decryptor.

i have a feeling it's something to do with read/write, this disc doesn't look corrupted. is there a good program for dealing with camcorder file systems?

[hech54]

hi sorry if this has been posted many times but i'm in an emergency. footage was shot on a hitachi camcorder. the disc was closed

Is closed the same as finalized on a Hitachi?
On the very old Philips recorders "closed" and "finalized" were not the same.

[SCDVD]

From your description, you are apparently using a camcorder than records onto mini DVD discs. You aren't the guy who was bragging about the "sweet deal" price you got on Mini DVD media are you?

Seriously, a couple of suggestions - The first is try it on a different DVD reader. Will the disc play in the camera? If so, what kind of outputs does the camcorder have for the video. If it won't play in the camcorder, you have a major problem.

If all else fails, you can try to salvage at least some of the content with IsoBuster.

Personally I think Mini DVD based camcorders are a lousy choice for two primary reasons. The first you are experiencing - media that can't be read. The other is the MPEG-2 format is not editor friendly.

[mrtunes]

From your description, you are apparently using a camcorder than records onto mini DVD discs. You aren't the guy who was bragging about the "sweet deal" price you got on Mini DVD media are you?

Seriously, a couple of suggestions - The first is try it on a different DVD reader. Will the disc play in the camera? If so, what kind of outputs does the camcorder have for the video. If it won't play in the camcorder, you have a major problem.

If all else fails, you can try to salvage at least some of the content with IsoBuster.

Personally I think Mini DVD based camcorders are a lousy choice for two primary reasons. The first you are experiencing - media that can't be read. The other is the MPEG-2 format is not editor friendly.

haha what's the "sweet deal" thing? i have no clue what you're talking about

i tried it on both my desktop and laptop readers. don't have the camcorder with me but that's probably me last resort is to get it from the person who shot the footage. also in the laptop, windows media player mounted the disc and i saw the classic camcorder menu.

i know mini-dvd camcorders are crappy choices, i myself have an hv20 which even that can be argued is rough using DV tapes, but i seem to agree that DVD-R is the worst choice for the few times i've had the headaches of working with them.

[SCDVD]

haha what's the "sweet deal" thing? i have no clue what you're talking about

I was teasing you. Every once in a while someone shows up on this forum bragging about some super price "deal" they got on some junk media somewhere. A few of these don't listen until they learn the hard way to avoid bad media.

In my opinion, the HV-20 and the newer HV-30 are one of the best camcorders around. They shoot great video and tape is a much more editor friendly way to go.