Can I recover dropped frames?

[Victor Fabian]

I captured a pretty impressive roll over accident at a desert race in laughlin last weekend. It seems as if I lost the first couple of frames to a dropout. I can kind of see the corrupted frames when playing back in slow-reverse, but not any way else. Is there any way to recover these lost frames?

Thanks.

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

Nope. If they're not there, they're not there.
The best means of fixing dropped frames in DV that I've accomplished is to take a frame preceding the dropped frame, and the frame post dropped frame and blending them as half-frames over the dropped frame part. So, you get 1 full frame before drop out, 2 half frames, and then a full frame after the drop out. Your NLE may or may not allow you to work with half-frames. If not, then grab either pre or post drop out and insert that full frame instead.