subject: Video recovery from flash memory-based camcorder [print this page] Video capturing has become a ritual if you are on a family vacation, attending a friend's birthday party or hosting a small get together, thanks to the introduction of affordable camcorders. Flash memory-based camcorders are the flavor of the modern era. They are easy-to-handle and operate. However, the problem arises when the memory card of a camcorder becomes corrupt and you are left helpless. In such situations since you cannot access videos stored on a memory card, you would better look for a possible backup. What if no backup exists? Well, you cannot simply afford to lose a single video, but what can be done. To give you peace of mind and let you recover your cherished videos, many video recovery software have got launched.
Consider a scenario, wherein, you are clicking videos of your pets playing and having a nice time with you on a lazy Sunday afternoon. On clicking one such video, the camcorder batteries conk out. You halt the fun activity there itself and come back to your room. The next day, when you re-insert the memory card after charging your camcorder to have a look at those funny and cute moments, you are left disappointed at the appearance of an unexpected error message. A disturbed you take out the card and reinsert it again, but get the same error message.
As a result of the above error message, you are unable to access the videos.
Cause
The prominent reason behind eruption of an error message in your camcorder is interruption in the write process. When you were in the middle of clicking a video, your camcorder's batteries broke down. This sudden incident ended up damaging the file system of your camcorder's SD card and leaving your videos trapped inside. Fortunately, you have an option of performing video recovery on a corrupt memory card. The details are given in the Resolution section of this article.
Resolution
You certainly cannot use a damaged SD card in your camcorder to click new videos. Therefore, it is must that you reformat it before using it again in your camcorder.
After fixing the corruption issue with your SD card, you must download a third-party video recovery software and recover lost or inaccessible videos.
Keep in mind to recover videos prior using the SD card for new data. If you do not observe this precaution, you might not be able to recover lost videos by using a recovery utility.
Videos from camcorders can be recovered using an efficient software like Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery. This application has been designed to recover videos and other multimedia files from various digital camcorders, regardless of the data loss cause. Both Windows and Mac users can make use of this video recovery application by downloading the version as per their operating systems.
