Dear Sony Vegas Pro viewers: I think I have ruined my HTC ReCurve sportcam recently. I duct-taped it to the side of a 12 inch painted kickball so that I could film with it in a crazy parade in St. Louis.

When I first taped it on I did a test clip via the phone app view. see below Media Info report: RECURVE VIDEO FILE 1 – NORMAL QUALITY, ETC.
It played back normal in the camera gallery option, etc. After that I had to add more tape and a foam bumper piece to help protect the lens section. The microphone ended up being taped over. This camera has a sense motion on pickup feature and I think being taped down may have messed with the sensor.

After the additional taping was all done I filmed some more test clips before the parade and they showed up fine in the live view and the recording light was normal. I could not take the media card out to test because the bottom was all taped down. I did not look at those files in the Re's gallery option if I did I would of quickly seen they would not open.

Though the second file report shows as a “audio” file the camera does not support a audio only mode.

Here is a error message:

Failed to open: The file format is not supported or the image is corrupted – Size 3.48 mb

The camera supports a factory reset, should I try that?

I just did a Test 15 second video file which does not open in RE; shows 00.00 and 00.00 at bottom time scale of the video. Still frames do not record either.

RECURVE VIDEO FILE 1 – NORMAL QUALITY, ETC.

+General
Complete name : G:\DCIM\101MEDIA\101_0203.MP4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 1
Codec ID : mp41 (isom)
File size : 180 MiB
Duration : 1mn 30s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 16.7 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37
Tagged date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37
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Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1mn 30s
Source duration : 1mn 30s
Bit rate : 16.4 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) fps
Standard : Component
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.264
Stream size : 176 MiB (98%)
Source stream size : 176 MiB (98%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37
Tagged date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37
Color range : Full
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
mdhd_Duration : 90223

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1mn 30s
Source duration : 1mn 30s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Nominal bit rate : 23.4 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 26.2 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Source stream size : 1.92 MiB (1%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37
Tagged date : UTC 2016-05-07 09:31:37


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RECURVE “AUDIO FILE 2” – BLACK SCREEN ON PLAYBACK IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, PERIODIC SCREECHING NOISES... DOES NOT OPEN IN VLC...

General
Complete name : G:\DCIM\101MEDIA\101_0204.MP4
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 57.5 MiB
Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 1
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : Intensity Stereo + MS Stereo
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 57.5 MiB (100%)

Any ideas on what may have happened or how to fix it?

Thanks for any opinions,
Bill