My VholdR has this nasty habit of - once in a while - shutting down while recording. Sometimes I can go for hours and hours. Today, it shut down twice. The battery is charged and tight in the camera. The hardware seems frozen, so I remove the battery, reinstall the battery, then the camera boots up and records fine - until the NEXT time it feels like taking a break on it's own. Yes, the card has a green light too. The camera is not being banged or subjected to any G forces.
My main question is: Can I recover the corrupted file? I am not a dunce when it comes to programming language. Can I open the dead file in Microsoft Word and add a line or two of info to recover it? Any suggestions?
BTW...My technique for not losing the WHOLE FRIGGIN' DAY filming is this: After I capture some really good footage, I turn off the record button, wait for the 2 beeps, wait five seconds, then start recording again. If you don't hear that 2 beep signal, the danged camera took a rest (lost power somehow) and corrupted the last video clip. Today I filmed for 45 minutes and repeated the record-stop-record-stop-record sequence twenty times. I lost TWO clips out of 25.
Maddening.
I spent some time on the Web and answered my own question. The answer is YES...and NO.
I can recover the corrupted video caused by my camera hiccup. Go to: http://www.ehow.com/how_443129...
Download all three programs (free or trial). I only needed the first two to actually see my video! YES!
But...the vids were only a few seconds in length - NO! Either the camera is shutting off almost immediately after starting recording, or my 15 day trial version will only let me see a bit of the vid.
Anyway, the programs are tiny and seem to work. Maybe the mods could try out the link and post this info somewhere more visible to folks having this problem.
Be a lot easier if the camera just worked tho.
Both corrupted clips were barely over 500KB (about 2 seconds in length) which means the camera is cutting off almost immediately after recording starts. There is no way to know until I switch to "Stop Recording" and don't hear any beeps. Then I know I have failed to record the last clip. :(
A power loss of some kind? Frimware issue? Removing and reinstalling the same (or different) battery allows the camera to boot up again.
Anyone else getting corrupted files on occasion accompanied by what appears to be a dead battery even tho the battery is just fine?
My camera was doing the samething. I've got another battery and it seems OK now but I still have to test it a bit more.