Recovery of movies from digital still camera

[baldeagel]

Hello. What a wonderful tool you have made and made available! Thank you!

I have successfully recovered 300 jpegs on my friend's camera card. They are of his honeymoon and he thought they were lost forever.

But I have a question. I thought ZAR could recover .mov files. I have tested this by intentionally recording a movie with the camera, clearing the card in the camera, and then removing the card to my computer and trying to recover the .mov file with ZAR. I can successfully recover all the jpegs, but there is no sign that there ever was a movie, let alone recover it. Am I doing something wrong?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

It should recover .mov files. If it does not (and recovers JPEGs at the same time), something is wrong with it. We fixed a similar issue recently, that was with a Kodak camera. Try this


Download, install, and retry with a latest version available: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/zar-83-rc3.exe
If this does not help, take a small sample movie and email it to development@z-a-recovery.com

[baldeagel]

I just tried alternative 1 -- download and install. After the install, it froze my mouse! It's a laser mouse and the red light went out too! Could not shut down the PC. I could try with the keyboard, and all looked ok, but no shut down would occur. Had to use the power button. Ouch.

So I better send you a sample movie as per alternative 2. I will do that a bit later.

Thanks.

PS -- the camera I used was a Panasonic FZ10.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Ahem. ZAR does not use anything which I know of to produce this sort of misbehavior. There might be software conflict somewhere. With drivers maybe.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Looking into it now. As of now, I think there is a problem with ZAR somewhere. Will probably fix it in a couple of days.

[baldeagel]

Thank you! Much appreciated.

BE

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Check for the latest version here - http://z-a-recovery.com/data-recovery-forum/announcement.php?f=2
Should work better this time.

[baldeagel]

Many thanks!!

[ekkie]

Hi,

Does someone know whether I can use ZAR to recover JPGs and AVIs from a SD card which were (accidentally) reformatted by a CANON SD1000 digital foto camera?

Thanks!

Ekki

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I replied to a PM already,
basically yes with JPEGs but not with AVIs.
For AVIs you may try simple volume recovery mode but I'm not sure it will work.

[ekkie]

I used the program for picture recovery, but have the following result after saving on my hard disk:
- In my Windows Explorer I can see the small picture previews via a 'tumbnails ' view, but when trying to open the pictures (enlarge them) with for example MS Picture Manager, I get a series of unsynchronised lines.
- For some jpgs (10%, maybe these were original the .avi files?) it does not show the thumbnail.
- For the last picture (for which I see a picture as thumbnail), I have a file of 644.896 KB.
- Some other jpgs (for which I see a picture as thumbnail) are also a bit too large (in KB) to be realistic.

I'll really appreciate if you could help me out further !

Thanks already !

Ekkie

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Really there is little we can do. Such a result is typical in case of the image fragmentation, where smaller parts (thumbnails) survive whilst large parts (hi-res images) are damaged. This also accounts for somewhat erratic file sizes. This is filesystem issue (airses due to the way files are stored).

So there is really nothing you can do except to try a "simple volume recovery" with an eval version to see if it brings something.