Do you finalize a tape for your camcorder? How do you finalize it?

Question

Do you finalize a tape for your camcorder? How do you finalize it?

Answer 1

You only have to finalize dvds but in tapes you don't have to do that.

Answer 2

Tape (miniDV, Digital8, VHS, VHS-C, DVCAM, DVCPRO, Beta, etc...) does not need to be "finalized". Video captured to hard drives and flash memory does not need to be finalized, either.

Some of the DVDs used by DVD based camcorders need to be "finalized". The camcorder's manual will have the DVD's finalization requirements and instructions to do that.

Answer 3

If you are referring to a minidv tape, then no they are not finalized, only minidvd discs arefinalized.