Hi everyone, I know there's been lots of posts on this topic, but after spending the past week trying out different solutions, I'm officially stumped and would appreciate any advice.
After wrapping up a shoot, I accidentally deleted one of my shots in camera while trying to view it. Went straight home and ran file recovery software on the CF card and was able to recover the MLV along with the .M## files with the headers missing. This was easy enough to fix using a hex editor; the problem however lied in the M00, M01, etc. files. When importing the MLV file alone in MLVapp, it played just fine, but when importing along with say the .M00 file, the total frames and duration looked correct (about double), but the clip itself (as in, what I'm actually seeing on screen) was the exact same as the MLV file on its own, but now played back at about 50% speed. I checked out the spanning files in the hex editor and found that all the data following the VIDF blocks were the same as in the .MLV (I verified this by copying chunks of code from the spanning files and searching for them in the MLV file's code; pretty much everything matched up). So basically I'm left with just the first 40ish seconds of the video I had originally shot, plus a bunch of duplicate files that were supposed to have the last couple minutes of footage.
Is the rest of the clip salvageable? How/why did this occur? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated
After wrapping up a shoot, I accidentally deleted one of my shots in camera while trying to view it. Went straight home and ran file recovery software on the CF card and was able to recover the MLV along with the .M## files with the headers missing. This was easy enough to fix using a hex editor; the problem however lied in the M00, M01, etc. files. When importing the MLV file alone in MLVapp, it played just fine, but when importing along with say the .M00 file, the total frames and duration looked correct (about double), but the clip itself (as in, what I'm actually seeing on screen) was the exact same as the MLV file on its own, but now played back at about 50% speed. I checked out the spanning files in the hex editor and found that all the data following the VIDF blocks were the same as in the .MLV (I verified this by copying chunks of code from the spanning files and searching for them in the MLV file's code; pretty much everything matched up). So basically I'm left with just the first 40ish seconds of the video I had originally shot, plus a bunch of duplicate files that were supposed to have the last couple minutes of footage.
Is the rest of the clip salvageable? How/why did this occur? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated