Video not playing, no sound, black screen, flickering, or has other problems? You just need a video repair tool!
With the convenience of mobile cameras in our pocket, we are able to create videos at anytime, but due to bad sectors on our storage device, virus attack, improper video opening/transferring/converting/editing, our videos may get corrupted, and it is not easy to repair a corrupted video without using a dedicated program.
A high-quality video repair program provides the simplest and most reliable solution to fix your damaged videos. If you need to repair your videos, we’ve put together this list with 15 best video repair software for you.
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Yes, there is free video repair software.
On our list, there are 3 pieces pf free video repair software: Digital Video Repair, VLC Media Player and Grau GmbH Video Repair. They are 100% free to use, but there are limits, either limited to full features, or not allowed to repair full length of the videos.
Besides video repair freeware, there are online free video repair tools. And like video repair freeware, they have limitations on video size, file quantity, etc.
Also you should be aware of that some video repair tools claim to be free to use, but they are not. They may allow you to scan and analyze the damaged video, but if you want to repair, you need to buy a license.
When picking a video repair tool, you will want a program that offers a blend of repairing rate, speed and simplicity. For this purpose, we Cisdem team have tested dozens of video repair tools, here we will list 15 best. If you want the best one for your Mac or PC, read the next parts to know our reasons.
Cisdem Data Recovery for Mac or Windows is picked as the NO.1 in this list for a good reason: it has the simplest process to repair different kinds of videos with original quality.
You can import one video by drag and drop for repair, or directly throw a folder and let Cisdem auto import all the videos in that folder for repair. The thumbnail, video size, length, resolution, title and path will be displayed to make sure you are repairing the wanted video, instead of wasting time on a unwanted video.
It is more than a corrupt video repair program, it is also a streamlined data recovery app with a heavy focus on restoring deleted or unsaved files in 1000+ formats, including videos, audios, photos, word/excel/powerpoint/pdf documents, archives, emails, bookmarks, etc. There is also a smart filter and convenient preview tool for fast recovery.
To save the space on your internal or external hard drive for recovered files, Cisdem also offers an solution to recover files to DropBox, OneDrive, Google Drive, pCloud, Box.
It has both macOS and Windows versions, applying to repairing and recovering files from internal or external storage devices.
Stellar is a famous software developer in the field of data recovery solutions. And it is easy to believe a developer as powerful as Stellar offers good video repair program too, it is called Stellar Repair for Video.
It can repair single and multiple videos in 20+ formats at one time, as long as it repairs your videos, the saved videos come with high quality. This program is designed to repair videos only, which means the repair process is quite simple and streamlined. However, this app responds a little slow when clicking its icons or loading a file, there is no video thumbnail to preview the corrupt videos that are not black screen. Even, I failed to preview the repaired video sometimes, the built-in video player won’t be able to open the video and preview.
Unlike Stellar, Wondershare’s Repairit is filled with repair tools to bring different files to life, including video, photo, microsoft office document and adobe files, also audio.
The interface is optimized for simple repair, which makes this program suitable for users that need to repair files very often. We’ve tested the speed, yes, the repair process can be done quickly, however, when we uploaded 10+ videos to batch repair, the program froze and finally crashed.
Launched in 2007, Tenoshare has been offering data recovery solutions for numerous users, and 4DDiG Video Repair recently became one of its best seller, due to the increasing needs of video repair.
It operates on Windows & Mac machines to repair a lot of file formats, including video, photo, audio, document, in a batch mode.
R-Studio is a pro-level video data recovery tool, not just a video repair tool. It may be one of the best data recovery solutions for advanced users, because it supports recovering files from bad sectors, damaged partitions, including those videos got corrupted.
Data recovery is not an easy job, but thanks to R-Studio’s great interface and online tutorials, all of its tool become easy to use, you can be a data recovery expert in no time, with the help of its advanced data recovery algorithm and in-depth file analysis.
The Mac version is much expensive than the Windows version, but both house all the features it promises to users.
You can use Remo Video Repair for simple video repair tasks on both macOS and Windows installs. This tool doesn’t ship with additional tools for advanced recovery, you have to repair videos one by one, and have to download VLC or manually choose a video player to preview the repaired video.
Running on Windows PC, this program can repair all common video formats friendly on Windows system, including MP4, MOV, MPEG, MJPEG, MTS, M4V, M4A, MKV, AVI, AVCHD, WEBM, ASF, WMV, FLV, DIVX, 3G2, TS, 3GP, F4V.
For slightly damaged videos, it can repair quickly, for severely damaged videos it asks for a reference video from users. Though the process is quite simple, it is pitiful that Kernel doesn’t allow previewing videos after repair.
If you are looking for a beginner video repair tool, Recoveryfix Video Repair is a good start due to its neat interface and simple operation, which runs on Windows machines only.
Recoveryfix Video Repair can auto check the videos, if the video is severely damaged, it will ask you to add a reference file. It supports batch repair as well, but patience is needed when repairing multiple videos in this program. In addition, it seems to be a copy of Kernel Video Repair, with small differences on the interface.
It has an easy-to-use interface and offers multiple benefits, such as displaying input and output file path, show file path and identify the file status.
Digital Video Repair also facilitates a user-friendly experience, it won’t freeze or crash even when repairing large videos that over 2GB, and has a good support of multiple interface languages.
The latest version of Grau GmbH Video Repair is 4.0.0.1. Both the macOS and Windows versions are saved in the same zip file. Mac users need to run the command in Terminal app to launch the program. Its interface may not look stylish to users, but it is still simple, similar to Digital Video Repair. Also, there is options allowed to customize repair /re-encode/preview parameters. Only the full version allows batch repair.
When comparing Aiseesoft Video Repair with other video repair tools, we find it has a higher recovery rate, because users are required to upload a sample video to start the repair process. It is exclusively designed for repairing videos, in only 3 formats. Due to its working mechanics, you cannot batch repair videos with this tool.
Although VLC certainly doesn’t offer a video repair tool as others we’ve listed here, it offers the solution of repairing videos by transcoding and some of our users find it helpful in their cases.
If you have some videos that are not playable, or come with back screen, no sound, you will benefit from its Convert tool, which is designed to fix compatibility issues.
It is one of the best online free video repair tool to fix corrupted videos in 6 formats. The free version gives users a delightful experience to upload videos, but the repair process does take much longer time than you think. The premium version supports batch repair and fast speed.
If you converts videos very often, you should be familiar with this tool, which features 6 file converters. Not only converts videos, it also repairs video in 4 formats. To repair videos with higher chances, it allows users to upload a similar video from same device that is not broken as reference.
Like any other online video tools, the biggest issue of using this tool is the speed, for the reason that videos always come with large size.
This platform includes dozens of tools to work on videos, audios, images and PDFs. Though the video repair tool supports fixing MP4 and MOV videos only, the recovered videos are in high quality. The main complaint about using this tool is still the speed, but this seems to be difficult to get solved at this moment.
It is Cisdem Data Recovery for Mac.
Why?
Because it has a higher recovery rate to repair your videos successfully, no matter how severely the videos are damaged. The batch repair mode allows you to fix multiple corrupted videos in the shortest time.
In addition, it has a plentiful features designed for data loss. You can recover 1000+ types of files that are deleted, formatted, unsaved, corrupted, missing on the internal or external hard drive. It works seamlessly with iCloud to regain access to your lost data.
It is Kernel Video Repair.
Why?
Because it can repair a lot of video formats, and it is specialized in repairing 4k, 8k, 360 degree videos. It can smartly check a corrupted video, if it is severely damaged, you will be asked to add a reference file to facilitate a successful repair.
With only 3 steps, add, repair and save, your corrupted videos will be played smoothly on your device again.
Connie Yu has been a columnist in the field of data recovery since 2011. She studied a lot of data loss situations and tested repeatedly to find a feasible solution tailored for each case. And her solutions are always updated to fix problems from the newest systems, devices and apps.
Ashlyn W
Starting with the online free options, but none of them worked in my case. So, I tried Cisdem video repair tool, I uploaded 2 damaged videos, one was repaired successfully, the other one could not be fixed, because i could not provide a sample video.