Recover a recording that stopped before it finished saving.
When a recording is cut off, the footage is often still there — the file just never got closed properly. Upload it and we'll finish the job. Free preview first.
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Your files auto-delete within 48 hours
No person watches your video as part of repair
Failure-mode explanation
A video file is normally closed out at the very end of a recording. In that final step, the camera writes the information a player needs: where the footage starts, how long it runs, how to line up the audio. If the recording is interrupted before that step — the battery dies, the card fills up, the app crashes, the drive is pulled — the footage gets captured but the file is never finished. It's left open-ended.
To a player, an unfinished file looks broken. It might refuse to open, show an error, play only a second or two, or display a black screen. People assume the footage is lost. Usually it isn't. It's sitting in the file, waiting for the closing information that never got written.
This is filefix's strongest case. We read the footage that was captured, reconstruct the missing closing information, and rebuild a finished file that plays start to finish. The preview shows you exactly how much we recovered — often the full length, sometimes up to the moment the recording was cut. You see the number in plain terms before you decide.
The exception: if the interruption happened so early that little or no footage was ever written, there may be too little to rebuild. If so, we tell you and don't charge.
Can / can't honesty block
We can usually fix
- recordings cut off by dead battery, full card, crash, or interrupted transfer, where footage was captured but the file never finished.
We can't fix
How it works
- Upload we finish and rebuild the file
- Free preview with exact recovered length
- Pay $19 and download.
About half of real-world corrupted files repair fully; preview before you pay.
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Free preview · pay only if it worked · files auto-delete within 48 hours
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Questions
If my video was 90 seconds, do I get all 90 back?
When the repair is fully successful, yes. The preview shows the exact recovered length — for example "90s of 90s," or "40s of 90s" if the recording was cut. You decide if a partial is worth it.
Does someone watch my footage?
No. The repair is fully automatic.
How long does it take?
Usually a few minutes, depending on file size.