Posted by Bill Quinn on 12/22/05 15:00

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:11qkolel203fg9f@corp.supernews.com...
> raja.rajendran wrote ...
>> Recently my mini-dv camcorder alerted "Head Dirty, Clean Head" when
>> recording. The message disappered
>> after the recording was stopped and restarted.
>>
>> When the tape was reviewed after recording, some segments were recorded
>> perfectly, some had a blank blue screen with no timecode and others had
>> horizontal bands (with timecode but the image in the horizontal bands
>> were static while the image outside the bands was the actual recording).
>>
>> Is there any way to recover the recording in the tape? The recordings
>> were done during our recent vacation and I would hate to lose them.
>
> 1) Play the tape back on the same machine that recorded it.
> 2) Run a head cleaning cassette which is approved by the
> on the manufacturer of your camcorder. Be sure to follow
> the instructions that come with it. DON'T over-do it!
> 3) Take your camcorder to a repair shop along with the
> tape and tell them what happened and what you want.
> 4) Next time, don't ignore the "Clean Head" message.
> Carry a head cleaning cassette in the camera bag.

That sounds like the problems I was having when I didn't know any better and
kept reusing the same tape.

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