Mould is stronger than the tape is many video cassettes including DV based formats miniDV, DVCAM and DVCPRO. So when tapes are badly stored and mould grows on them, it will cause the tapes to snap when loaded into a player. The mould "glues" the tape together on the spools, at the top and bottom edges. In the past I've shown a process for de-moulding Video8 or Hi8 tapes, today we do the same process on some DVCPRO tapes. DVCPRO as a professional version from Panasonic, of the DV format, partly related to DVCAM from Sony. The format didn't sell particularly well, the machines are unreliable, and there were a lot of variants such as DVCPRO-50, DVCPRO-HD, and up to four tapes sizes. Relatively few people can run all variants of DVCPRO, and even less are brave enough to work with mouldy tapes!

Playlist on DVCPRO:    • Wacky cassettes: Grundig Steno-Casset...  
Playlist on mouldy tapes:    • Mould on video tapes  

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00:00 Introduction
01:53 Tools and start work
05:55 Using tension to unwind the tape
11:13 Reassemble
12:44 More large tapes
15:03 Giving it a tug, if you're lucky
16:20 Video8/Hi8
16:46 Conclusion and video capture