Digital camcorders have made it possible to shoot high-resolution videos with minimal efforts. The modern age camcorders are quite compact and use high capacity memory cards or hard drives to store videos.
If you own a camcorder, make sure to charge it completely, before you go clicking videos with it. If you shoot videos on low batteries, chances are that you’ll end corrupting the storage media – memory card or hard drive. In such cases, you will also lose access to the saved videos.
Though, you can restore lost videos from a backup which you have maintained on your computer’s hard drive, it doesn’t always fulfill the requirement. Thus, leaving you helpless. However, you can still recover lost videos provided you are familiar with the concept of video recovery.
Never click videos on low batteries :
It is always suggested not to capture videos when your camcorder displays a ‘low battery’ sign. If you ignore the message and go on clicking videos, and your camcorder turns off unexpectedly, the chances are you will end up corrupting your memory card.
The memory card becomes corrupt due to an interruption in the read/write process. Your camcorder experienced a shut down while it was in the middle of the process of writing a video to the memory card. As a result, you might not be able to access previously saved videos.
Hope with a recovery utility
You may try and access the lost videos by connecting your camcorder to a computer. Alternatively, you can use a card reader as well. But, in majority of corruption cases these strategies fail to reap any benefit. Don’t worry. You have a reason to smile as you can still recover lost videos by using an efficient video recovery software.
Be cautious while selecting a utility
You must research thoroughly and find a capable and risk-free video recovery utility on the Internet. You may come across a slew of recovery utilities but be very careful while choosing one for the job. A less competent software can extend further damage to the videos, thus making successful recovery a distant dream.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a highly trusted application which recovers lost or deleted videos from multiple camcorder brands and various storage media. This application recovers all video formats including AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 etc in three simple steps viz select, scan and save.