Importing MiniDV to Computer - Corruption, Disc Read Error.

I am quite new at this and don't even know if I have posted to the correct forum - my apologies if I have erred.

I'll try to keep this short.

I have a couple of MiniDV tapes that I am trying to transfer unto a DVD.

I have two 1 hr tapes that I am using Ulead Moviemaker to join and burn to the same DVD. That dvd will then be copied in our 3 disc duplicator and distributed to our parisioners.

Firstly I connected the camcorder to our standalone DVD player/recorder to transfer the contents to a dvd-r. That seemed to burn fine, did not report any errors and plays well.

When I took the finalized DVD and tried to rip it into the computer to edit and burn unto a new disc the process would not complete due to a corruption/disc read error about mid way through one of the dvd's.

Thinking it was a bad dvd I tried to capture directly to the computer from the camcorder and received the same error so I guess there is some corruption in the source material - the miniDV tape.

Are there any suggestions on what to do next?

Or alternately, solutions that will attempt to repair corruption during the dvd or vid cpature process to the computer.

I am stuck with trying to find out exactly where the corruption is located in the time sequence and try to stop the recording/rip process just prior and jump back in once the source video is correct again?

If I have to go with the latter are there any tools that will tell me exactly where the problem is so that I can surgically only removed the portion that is corrupt.

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

I assume that the mini DVD uses the same layout as far as file names (VIDEO_TS folder, .VOB .IFO etc files) as a standard DVD movie disk.
If so, try DVD Decrypter to rip it.It is more aggressive as far as errors and may help.

http://www.soft32.com/download_75586.html