Movie Repair Guide 5th edition May 2012.
This guide is for...
- people looking for a solution to their damaged movie problems
- prospective customers of our Movie Repair Service, wanting to understand how it works and align expectations
- customers needing assistance with Treasured and their repair kit.
This guide contains the knowledge accumulated over hundreds of repairs. It exposes the concepts of movie repair, a vast and interesting subject with many techniques (and more yet to invent).
Video Professionals confronted with a corrupt movie file will find here information and tools to "save the day". Many articles contain also very technical information aimed at programmers and video hackers.
Overview:
Hands-on:
- First aid: What must be done when a corrupt movie is detected, to avoid make things worse?
- Evaluate the situation and take the first action
- Does it correspond to what you expect to recover?
- Methods to read a damaged disk
- Hide defects after a repair
- Rare cases where a DIY repair is possible.
- Prevention
Conceptual:
- Setting Expectations: Will a repair be possible, of good quality?
- Common Defects found in repaired movies
- Dealing with a Storage failure (hard disk or memory card)
- Dealing with a Recording failure (hardware or software)
- Investigative Repair
Tools:
- Treasured, the free diagnostic software (features)
- DeepMediaScan to detect media inside damaged disks.
- Movie Repair Service by Aero Quartet
- RepairMovie, the customized repair tool
- Profiles table
- Useful tools
- QuickTime errors
Repair Techniques:
- Human Inspection
- Container Structure Correction
- Audio scraping
- RTP packets
- Reindexing
- DV Aggregating
- Frame reordering for HDV
- Error-Hiding
- De-shuffling
- Decode-Validate
- Audio Video sync strategies
Containers and Media types:
- List of Containers and their repairability
- AAC
- AIFF
- ALAC (Apple Lossless)
- AVCHD
- AVC Intra
- CineForm RAW
- DNxHD
- DVCPro HD
- DVCPro50
- DV
- JPEG
- RPZA
- MPEG4 Video (includes DivX family)
- H264
- REDCODE
- Sorenson 3
- Uncompressed video, TIFF
- HDV
- Apple Intermediate codec
- Apple ProRes422
- XDCAM
- MPEG1, MPEG2
- H263
Cameras and video applications:
We mention here only those that are repair routinely. Files from hundreds of other cameras or applications not listed here have also been repaired.
