Repair Video Clips

Video clips are usually a part of movie file of longer recording. They are generally short clips of videos less than the length of a television program or any music video. Video clips are also found in internet used for advertisement or any promo of any film or serial. But it has great disadvantage, you cannot save it from getting corrupted.

Some scenario leading to video clips corruption are as follows:

• Improper File conversion: While converting video clip of one file format to another, you were unsuccessful in doing so due to interruption in conversion process. As a result, it might get corrupted resulting in inaccessibility of video clips.
• Unreliable or third party programs: Using faulty or unreliable third party program to recover deleted files or to convert file format may damage video clip and make it inaccessible.
• Unsupportive player: If you were attempting to open a file in one player and if it is not compatible and proper player for running video clip, then it gets damaged and you may encounter error message stating “The player cannot support this file format”.  This error does not allow you to open that file.
• External Threats: Virus such as adware, malware, spyware when infect video file damage it making it unplayable. Once virus infects video clip it severely damage the movie file. All media files are prone to corruption to get infected by virus.
• Abnormal termination of system: If your system shuts down unexpectedly or abnormally when video file is in active mode then it corrupts header and file structure making it unplayable.
• Sudden removal of storage media: Pulling out any external storage device abruptly from PC or sudden power surges while transferring files is also responsible for loss of video clips. You may accidentally take out your device without proper exit option without checking that files are transferred or not. In such case video files are likely to get damaged.

To avoid above mentioned scenarios you need to follow some precautionary steps:

• Use supportive player to play videos
• Use proper method to convert extension of files
• Always keep back up of your file.
• Keep updating your antivirus program to prevent your machine getting harmed by virus.

After following these steps still if you cannot save your video clip from corruption then there is way to fix this problem. You can make use of a repairing program to fix corrupted video file. MP4 video repair tool can be used to fix corrupted or broken MOV, MP4 movie files within a short span of time. It automatically fix video file that are severely corrupted by scanning them. Some codecs like Video - avc1, mp4v, RAW, mp4a also support this application. You can also use this software which provides proficient graphical user interfaces that scan and fix unplayable MP4 files in iTunes.This utility also supports different external storage media like memory card, iPod devices, USB drive and flash memory cards. It is recommended by high professionals so can be used this application to repair MP4 after error or for any type of data loss situation.

Follow the simple streps to repair video clips:

Step1:On the home screen you will find "Open" option to browse for the corrupted file, once the application is launched. Then press "Repair" button to start the repairing program.

Figure 1 : Home Screen

Step 2: After that software start the program, you can view the progress of the process in a window.

Figure 2 : Progress of Repairing Process

Step 3: Once the process is completed, click on "Preview repaired file" option to view repaired file as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 : Final step - Preview screen shot