[Karyn Reohr]

Morton…you are a life saver. Can I send you a free drink? I wish I could over email!

It looks like their program is going to work for me. Thank you SO much, I really mean it. It’s the difference between getting paid for a $500 job, and not. But more importantly to my client, it’s the speech given by the sister of a beloved pediatrician in our community who died falling off a ladder putting Christmas lights up for his family. It really means a lot that the funeral video is intact.

Again thank you SO much for seeing this and responding to it.

Karyn

[Karyn Reohr]

Hi Peter,

I tried to open it with VLC. VLC “opened” it and the timeline started to play, but no video or audio appeared. It was like a silent file.

Thanks for the suggestion! I will try the other solution of that company, if anyone else has any other referrals to companies that will repair corrupt files in this situation let me know! (I.e. Situation is most likely that camera was abruptly shut off while recording to SD card and video data is now in a generic DAT container file which should have been in MOV).

Thanks,

Karyn

[Karyn Reohr]

I think I figured out what happened…my assistant opened the battery case to change batteries while it was recording so the camera shut off in recording mode.

I am now thinking I have a corrupt DAT file that may still contain movie data (I’m hoping it does)! Several DAT to MOV software programs have failed to open it.

Does anyone know how I can repair a corrupt file, or one that was not “closed” properly during record mode?

Thanks,
Karyn