Need to repair a deleted and recovered GoPro (MP4) video. Will pay.

[MadScience]

Video was shot on a GoPro 3 Silver @ 1920x1080 / 30fps

Deleted data off SD card and quickly realized. Quarantined SD card, did not write anything new to card, and began to perform data recovery using "GetDataBack" for FAT.

Recovered file in question. File would not play.

"Fixed" it using "Video Repair Tool" which then allowed segments of the video to play, thumbnail to reappear, however the part of the video that I need does not seem to be viewable.

The deleted video was part of footage shot for an over the top engagement proposal. The GoPro was placed at the top of some stairs.. girl walks up the stairs and finds her hubby at the top. The part of the video I need is the few seconds that show the girl coming around the corner and walking up the stairs.

I've taken it as far as I can myself and I just don't have the time or energy anymore. But I got so close.... I feel like if I can get that close, somebody else who actually knows about this stuff must be able to do it...

Will paypal $50 US to anyone who can get the footage back. I just need the few seconds of the girl walking up the stairs...

Recovered / Corrupt MP4 File : https://www.dropbox.com/s/hipic89tuyvst1l/xOPR0863.MP4?dl=0

File is still uploading to my dropbox so it may not be available for an hour or so yet.
If anything else is needed let me know.

[Cornucopia]

Likely, you didn't really "recover" it, so all the other stuff won't really help if the data is not there in THAT file. Better to image the WHOLE CARD to ISO, because you may need to attempt recovery (again) with multiple apps.

Scott

[MadScience]

Cool. Well I guess I should mention that I'm not looking for tips on best practise or proper protocols. I have the file that I shared, that's it. Either somebody can extract the <10 seconds of footage I need from that file, or they can't. If it's not possible that's fine, I just need to know that definitively. But my near success has me believing... Like I said, I was able to recover a large portion of it already, just not the portion I needed. I can even hear the sound from the part that I need. So I find it highly unlikely that somebody who knows their way around this stuff wouldn't be able to do more than I did with the file provided.

[budwzr]

Ummm.. Scott is an expert here in the forum. His opinions are highly regarded.

[Baldrick]

If you still haven't wrote anything to the sd card try other recovering software and see how they recover the file. Maybe cd roller and CnW Data Recovery.

But such large files are usually very hard to recover correctly.

[MadScience]

Ummm.. Scott is an expert here in the forum. His opinions are highly regarded.

Cool. That's awesome man. I was just wondering if anyone could recover what I need from the file I uploaded, or not.

I no longer have the SD card in question so I cannot perform any further recoveries. And I guess the general consensus is I'm rather SOL here?

I'm curious if anyone has ever successfully recovered a GoPro video from a deleted card, ever, in the history of the world? I'm curious because I can't find evidence anywhere on the Internet that this has actually happened. I could probably get the card back if I really wanted to and try again... But I only want to do that if I see some proof and assurance that success is even possible.

[Cornucopia]

I'm not gonna attempt to recover something from a file that I believe might not even be the whole file to begin with - it's like saying see if you can make an airplane fly when there's a possibility that the parts for it that shipped didn't arrive (but you only signed for one storage car's worth, so you don't even know if they're not all there). That's why you need the whole disc image - because often a file is written to multiple extents and a recovery software uses an algorithm that may take advantage of only one (the first) extent, or maybe only contiguous/adjacent extents, or maybe a certain pattern. And they're (the apps) all slightly different, so some may work better for certain cards, certain filesystems, certain container formats (and certain structures within those containers), and certain sector allocations. So you cannot/shouldn't rely on just ONE app, because it could easily NOT be the optimal one for YOUR situation. A "recovered file" limits you to only attempting something downstream of a particular course of action.
But if you have the WHOLE disc/partition imaged, you can test a variety of them and not be hindered by downstream constraints.

Success might be possible with the uploaded file, but it would be MORE possible (statistically) with a disc image.

Of course, at this point, "get the card back" makes me dubious about the likelihood of a positive outcome.

Scott

[aedipuss]

as far as i can tell there is no video in the file. there is one video header at the beginning and maybe one frame. looking at it with a hex editor shows repeating stuff like this that you just don't find in video. and there are no more headers to be found when there should be hundreds for the number of gops a file that size should have.

[MadScience]

Ok.. that was the original recovered file from the sd card that I uploaded. I didn't even think to upload the "repaired" file. I figured the original would be the way to go.. closer to the source etc. But the file that I repaired/produced using the "Video Repair Tool" actually plays video data and has a thumbnail. So there's obviously "stuff" in that file.. but the video skips a lot and is very sketchy. It wouldn't play back on most players properly. Couldn't seek, freezing, crashing the players. I couldn't see the footage that I needed on any player..

HOWEVER, I just (accidently) played the "repaired" file in LightRoom 5's internal video playback and I CAN SEE THE FOOTAGE THAT I NEED!!!!! I crapped a little when I saw her come around the corner!!! The video is still skiddish, skipping around, but it looks like most of what I need is actually there (as far as LightRoom can tell...) !!

Here is the "repaired" file I speak of: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hipic89tuyvst1l/xOPR0863.MP4?dl=0

I could do a screen capture and attempt to repair the footage by hand with editing, but that's definitely not ideal.. perhaps somebody can simply get all the data back where it's supposed to be? I dunno.. I'm a noob when it comes to hexing. But I'll raise the stakes to $75 US for anyone who can get me clean footage of her walking around the corner and up the stairs, audio negligible. Anyone?

EDIT: Also, not sure if this changes anyone's mind about the integrity of the original file I provided (because this new file is derived from what I orginally posted), but I don't have enough room in my dropbox for both files at the moment. If anyone wants another look at the original file in light of these new developments let me know. However, when played back in LightRoom, it seems like the repaired file contains a lot of data, if not all of it, just skewed. So close...

[Acımasız]

I need is the few seconds that show the girl coming around the corner and walking up the stairs.

....

Here is the "repaired" file I speak of: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hipic89tuyvst1l/xOPR0863.MP4?dl=0

http://files.videohelp.com/u/235547/752418764198417684199841984169.mp4

Don't think this can be repaired.

[goprorecovery]

The file cannot be repaired as it includes both high and low resolution video.

The solution is to do the recovery again from the raw memory chip with a program that understands the raw structure of GoPro video memory cards. This assumes you still have the memory chip unchanged.

[seachase102]

Hey everyone,
Late to this thread here, but I wanted to see if anyone could help me out here. I used a brand new SD card with my GoPro Silver 4 last week. (First time using the card) I copied files over Wednesday night, Thursday during the day we used it on the slopes a lot, then I made a huge mistake! The GoPro studio software popped up when I put in my card in my macbook and it started importing files. When I hit stop it said "delete files" i thought it meant from the computer..and then we watched all our videos from that day get deleted. Ugh! We have not used the SD card since.

So are my chances of getting anything back a shot? CardRescue only showed that 8 videos could be recovered, but they wouldn't even open. Talked to a guy on the phone from SanDisk LC Tech Rescue Pro File recovery service and he seemed very confident they could all be recovered if I sent my SD card to them. And it would be $325!!

If anyone could give me any advice that would be great.

Thank you!

[goprorecovery]

Hi,

I think my www.goprorecovery.co.uk software is about the only one to help you, especially if you have low and high resolution files. The demo will show thumbnails of the files that will be recovered. The product is designed for JUST GoPro cameras.

As for price, the product is $14.95. This comes with full support, and typically 100% success rate.

Some companies that claim to do GoPro recovery have purchased my software!

[opar2016]

I suggest that you try this gopro video recovery guide which helped me last time.

[goprorecovery]

opar2016, I am not aware of any reports of significant issues with GoPro Recovery. If there is an issue, please report it.