Corrupt MTS files

rob-h wrote on 9/17/2016, 6:17 PM

I was trying to start a new project (new user to Vegas) and imported 19 MTS files directly of the NXCAM SD card. Vegas crashed 3 times while I was pulling the video to the time line. Each video clip is less than 2 minutes long. My computer is an i5, 16GB DDR4, Win 7 (64 OS) on a Gigabyte Z170 motherboard. I googled Vega crashing and found several post about changing the vegas program priority in task manager, changing the Dynamic Ram to more than 200, and turning off GPU acceleration.

Now I want to start the project over and it tells me that 9 of my 19 video files I was working with are now corrupt. I can not open the corrupt MTS files in VLC player either. They were working fine before Vegas crashed. I know now to copy the files on to the hard drive 1st and keep the SD as a back-up until the project is complete.

Is there a solution to this?

Thanks

Comments

set wrote on 9/17/2016, 6:56 PM

MTS... AVCHD format?

Did you copy your file directly from your SD Card? Do you use utility like Playmemories or Catalyst Browse to copy from SD Card to your storage?

If copy directly, the long recording files are splitted per 2GB. Does the 9 files were from long record mts?

rob-h wrote on 9/17/2016, 7:40 PM

I went direct, I just downloaded Catalyst Browse after the fact.These were all short clips, less than 2 minutes each. There were 19 of them, now I have 10 remaining... that Vegas will work with. I normally copy the SD card onto the hard drive before I edit but I was working in concert with a tutorial, thinking what could possibly go wrong...

dxdy wrote on 9/18/2016, 5:22 PM

What does MediaInfo say about the files?

Use Google to search for "fixing corrupt mts files" and there are some possibilities there. Also, depending on the brand of SD card you have, it may have come with a file repair/recovery utility. Check it out.

dxdy wrote on 9/18/2016, 5:29 PM

The discussion here:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/repairing-corrupt-mts-files.1886805/

is especially worrisome, about fake/mislabeled SD cards.

rob-h wrote on 9/20/2016, 7:38 PM

I downloaded Cypheros TS Doctor, I believe it said missing PID, of course it would not fix it. I also put the SD card back in the camera, it is like the videos neve existed.

Musicvid wrote on 9/20/2016, 7:53 PM

I agree, there are even fake cards on Amazon.