Hi,
I am tearing my hair out!! Hopefully someone out there can help me.

I'm using a Sony HDV 1080i camera with a HD tape.

I locked my tape (slider on side) before capturing successfully on Final Cut Pro.

When I tried to playback my tape in the camera, nothing happens! The screen stays blue and the timecode doesn't budge from 00-00-00. In the camera mode, it doesn't even detect the tape.

I removed the tape and put the slider back to REC and reinserted it - but it made no difference.

I'm a newbie at this stuff and am a bit worried because the tape just doesn't seem to be responding to the camera anymore.

I tried another tape and it was fine.

I don't know what i've done wrong!! Help!!

Does the tape need rewinding. Sorry to ask.

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Every thing said by me should be taken with a pinch of salt. Unless you have high blood pressure, then I would recommend a salt substitute.

no, when I try to rewind/forward the timecode gets stuck on 1 or 2mins.

In camera mode, it doesn't even register that a tape is inserted. The 'no tape' symbol keeps flashing up.

You got the tape into Final Cut ok. That at least is good news. How did you do this - from the camera, or in another playback machine.

First thing to check - will the camera replay other tapes? If it doesn't, then it could be something really simple, and removing the battery, leaving for a while, then repowering up may cure it. The tape itself could, if replayed on another machine be jammed, although this usually give error messages, not no tape.

If other tapes work fine - then I'd probably just dump the raw footage back to another medium for safety and move on.

If you can try it in a different camera. I guess if it doesn't work then it could be a duff tape. Is that better than being a duff user. lol

One thought, if there is nothing recorded on the tape the numbers won't change.

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Every thing said by me should be taken with a pinch of salt. Unless you have high blood pressure, then I would recommend a salt substitute.

may because you locked it so no recording happened...
I am much worried about your camera motors, are they still working because when you say you locked it and used for recording I am thinking that your motor was forcing your tape to run but it was locked which may break your tape or motor... just asking hehhe!