I shot two tapes worth of footage for a show a friend was doing the other night. Since I had over two hours of footage I didnt want to put it all into my computer at once so I loaded 1/4 or so of it in off each tape. After editing that I did the same thing a second time. With editing of thoes segments finished I went to capture more footage off the tapes but neither of the tapes would play correct. Both tapes played, but they displayed a scattered, almost pixilated immage. I got to figure out how to fix this, I cant get any of this footage over again. PLEASE HELP........

Clean the tapes and tape deck you are using. If that doesn't work, then your tapes are damaged. This usually happens, for me at least, when you are taping over previous footage rather than using a fresh tape.

Also certain brand name tapes are not fully compatible with competing brand tape decks and cameras - it can be glitchy. For example you cannot play Panasonic tapes in a Sony deck.
If your deck/camera brand differs from your tapes, try using a different brand deck/camera or send your tapes to get dubbed to another brand name.

Yeah, I tought about cleaning the tapes, but we had a total of 4 tapes, two other tapes that were shot on another camera, and nothing is wrong with thoes tapes, It doesnt make sense... I think I might just have to go with the fact that they are dammaged, i really hope not, any other suggestions from anyone would be most appriciated

Let me see if I can help here...
So you have 4 tapes all together and two are F*cked up right? It sounds to me that your camera that used the two messed up tapes is dirty, like the heads.

Pixels will come out in screeening if the heads are broken and if the tape is dirty. I really don't think the tape is messed up, just dirty. You can buy tape cleaners at Fred Myer or any camera store...I had the same problem last year and the cleaner fixed it right up. That one camera is most likely dirty(It's heads).

I hope it works, let us know!

"I don't have time for film school...I'm too busy making movies" lol

Yeah that was my original thought was that the heads of the one camera was just dirty, so I grabbed another camera and tried it on that, same brand and model, still didnt work. Although I guess one point to make is that a tape shot on one Cannon GL-1 will not play on another Cannon GL-1. Hmmm.... I think cleaning the heads is worth a shot and I will give it a try early next week... I appriciate the help but just the whole thing kinda bewilders me. I dunno, some of this stuff is so complicated. Thanks for your help, and any more suggestions are certinly welcome.

Yeah this whole video film hobby/career for some is ass backwards sometimes. I guess that's what the site is for...some help. Hope that works out for you.

"I don't have time for film school...I'm too busy making movies" lol