I have not tried either of those programs. I rarely use AE and have never used Prelude. I’m using OSX and have started exporting color corrected 4444 files from CineX as an alternative for now.
The recovery teams have guessed that they may have been fried with an electrical surge. No one is really sure but one company said that the firmware card is dead so they can’t do a recovery. This is obviously not my expertise but that’s what I’ve been told.
No, we’ve sent it to WeRecoverData and they were unsuccessful. Now, both drives are at Ximatic. Sounds like its not worth just have the video files with no audio for an interview…