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Take the tapes out during one of the segments where you can see half the frame, pop the cover (there's a little lever on one side of the tape that you move to open the protective cover over the tape), and take a look at the physical condition of the tape - it should be "smooth" edge to edge - if you can see crinkling/wrinkling on one side or the other or both, it's likely an alignment issue or a bad tape, and unfortunately the footage won't be recoverable (physical damage to tape from bad tracking is pretty harsh).
IF the tape looks good, MAYBE it's still a minor tracking issue and you can recover some of it - the fact that you've got half the image corrupted is not encouraging, but sometimes bad alignment/tracking can be corrected for if the tape isn't trashed.
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