The problem is that if the video was somehow overwritten (and it would seem that perhaps the camera got knocked onto record while the lens cap was on or something) then there's precious little you'll be able to do as all the data will be overwritten and if I recall correctly regarding tape recording mechanisms there is a pre-head component which wipes the tape clear of data prior ot the recording heads writing new data to it.

I don't personally know of any company that recovers data from overwritten miniDV's but you may want to dig around on Google. In any case I can imagine it would be a very expensive affair with extremely unpredictable results.

Really sorry to hear you lost what appears to be irreplaceable footage.

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