spent the whole day shooting in 720p 24 on my HD200 - while i was shooting the camera sporadically switched to DV 60i - and consequently i switched back to 24p i reviewed the tape just after this and everything looked fine - however after i got home and attempted to capture the days footage - i cannot access the tape. This is very annoying as the project is due monday! - and the actor i have playing lead is away tomorow and monday as well. What can i do - everytime i try to play back the tape i get a message saying 'DV 60 I invalid' - what can i dol; it is possible there may have been five secodns of dv 60i footage on the tape - is all lost?

Sounds like something's wrong with the metadata. I don't know if this will work, but you could try loading with DVHSCap and converting the mt2 files with MPEG Streamclip.

Good luck,

Liam.

done. it worked. but there is still small glitches - probably a bad tape

Tyson I would recommend never mixing formats on the one tape. I think when I did it leaving playback on Auto worked or it could have been vica versa. Anyway glad you solved your problem.