Am I Cooked?
Is there any way my tape isn't completely destroyed? Is this savable?
I'm so devastated right now. I recently found my old JVC camcorder with my old skateboard footage, I was stoked to see my old friends and I shred all the skate spots in my hometown. But sadly the camcorder doesn't work anymore so I've been browsing eBay for a few weeks in search of a working mini-DV camcorder so I can view the footage. Finally got one a few days ago. The seller said it's in working condition. Everything operates as it should. Well I turned it in and the "condensation operation pause" message was on. I've spent days researching the fixes, nothing worked. I finally said F it and snagged my girlfriends blow-dryer. Fixed it within a couple minutes. So I'm friggin ecstatic at this point. Long story short, it started playing. It had a skip so I stopped the tape. I sat back and was just kinda taking it all in, the realization I was going to be able to watch all this old footage I thought was long gone really hyped me up ya know. I then started going through the menus to turn on the date and time. This is when the terrifying event took place. I pressed the fast forward button on accident and the tape started fast forwarding but the sound it made was that of nightmares. I scrambled and hit stop, a crunching sound echoed through my bones. random beeps began beeping and a "safeguard mode" message popped up in the LCD. I was a mess, I couldn't believe this, I was frantically hoping this demoncorder didn't just eat my prized footage. I opened it up and found this destruction. this is when I set the woodchipper I mean camcorder down gently with the mini-DV and took these pictures.
Sorry for the dramatized description, I think it's a coping mechanism, I apologize.
What's my next move?
Any feedback would be appreciated....
Thanks