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Camcorder Recovery: How to Recover Deleted Video Files from Camcorder

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Jan 15, 2024 • Filed to: Photo/Video/Audio Solutions • Proven solutions

Help! Need Camcorder Video Recovery!

I mistakenly erased a video off of my hard drive camcorder. It’s a video of my newborn son. My wife is going to kill me! Can I recover lost videos from the camcorder? Please HELP! Thanks!

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Before we start, don't take any new videos with your camcorder after you lose a video on it, or your lost video will be overwritten and gone forever.

Part 1: Free Download Video File Recovery Software

It's really sad to lose precious videos, especially videos of precious memories that are once in a lifetime. Yes, camcorder recovery can help you recover deleted videos from a camcorder, but finding a professional and safe program is not easy. Many camcorder recovery tools brag about how easy and powerful their programs are. To get one that works well, as you need, we recommend that you use Recoverit video recovery software, it is a powerful camcorder video recovery program.

This Camcorder Recovery Tool Can Recover Deleted Videos from any Camcorder Type:


Part 2: How to Recover Deleted Videos from Camcorders

Download and install Recoverit Video Recovery software on your computer, connect your camcorder or SD memory card to the computer. In the following steps, we will perform camcorder video recovery on Windows computer. If you are working on Mac, you should download Recoverit video recovery software for Mac and go on.

Step 1. Select Camcorder or SD storage

Launch Recoverit video recovery program on your computer, select the location (camcorder or storage device) to get started.

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Step 2. Scanning the camcorder or storage

The video recovery software will start to scan the device to search for the lost video files. It will take a while to complete.

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Step 3. Preview recovered files and restore

After scanning, you can check recovered video files and preview some recovered photos. Select your videos and click the "Recover" button to retrieve them.

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Advance Video Recovery for Fragmented Video Recovery (Recommended)

In most cases, lost videos from the camcorder can be recovered with ease through the above steps. However, large video is usually fragmented in the drive and may lead to failure of recovering the complete video. If so, the Advanced Video Recovery feature can help you. It scans, gathers, and matches the fragments of your corrupt videos and thus ensures most of your videos are recovered from DSLR, Digital cameras, Drones, Action Cameras, Dashcams, camcorders, SD card, PC, HDD, etc.

Just click the Advanced Video Recovery option to recover the fragmented video file easily.

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Please get s safe storage media to save all recovered video files in case of our data lost again. With Recoverit video recovery software, you can easily get your lost videos back. Download and try it for free now.

Wanna know the steps on getting audio files back? Check out the page: How to Recover Audios.
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