If images or videos have been mistakenly deleted from the computer and/or the camcorders hard drive or memory card, third party data recovery software or data recovery companies may be able to retrieve the videos and/or images. Canon does not bundle any type of data recovery software with our products. We would suggest contacting your computer or memory card manufacturers for possible suggestions and/or perform a web search for data/image recovery.
Discs recorded in the VR mode do not need to be finalized. However, many standalone DVD players are unable to read discs recorded in VR mode. If your DVD player is unable to playback VR mode discs we would suggest using the camcorder as a playback device instead.
DVD camcorder movies are primarily designed for direct playback of the recorded discs using either the camcorder connected to the television or by simply removing the finalized DVD disc from the camcorder and placing it into your home DVD player. A computers DVD drive that is compatible with 3 inch Mini-DVD's*
or DVD-R DL discs (DC10, DC20, DC100, and DC40 are not compatible with DVD-R DL discs). If a DVD+R/RW disc is loaded into a Canon DVD camcorder the camcorder will display a "DISC ERROR" message after it attempts to read the disc.
