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Yes, you can fix it. It takes time, patience, and count on about 15 seconds before and after the break to be worthless.
You can usually pull the tape apart with an eyeglass or jewlers screwdriver, snip out the segment that's damaged, and tape it back together, using acid free clear tape. Make sure there is NO overlapping of the video tape OR the tape you use to mend it, and keep the mending tape to a minimum. keep the . Use a pair of grooming scissors if you have them. Manually rewind the tape , and feed it until it's looped around as many times as you feel are necessary to let the tape feed forward at a normal pace (all the way if you have to).
Try and pay attention to the time code, so that after you have rewound the tape, you can log and capture, but stop short of the break. Manually feed it forward, past the break, to the other side of it, and when you are far enough past, capture the rest of the tape.
The tape load mechanism error on some older Canon's (XL1/Gl1) were notorious for this, (particularly when using some sony tapes) and I've had to do it half a dozen times.
Good luck.
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