Crashed drone!! AND LOST FOOTAGE?!

[Oxygen breather]

I have crashed my Syma X8G a few times and wonder if there is any way to retrieve the footage. When I put the SD card into the computer, it will show a file for that video taken, and also will give the amount of MB it takes up. But it won't play, and it only shows the standard quicktime symbol. I know that it isn't working because I didn't get the chance to stop the recording, but now that I have some cool videos of me dropping my drone out of the sky, is there a way to view and export those clips?

 

[Birdy]

Just a shot in the dark but I've had several Symas (various models) that came with bad SD cards and acted as you described. I went out and just got my own better quality cards and they work fine.

 

[Oxygen breather]

Just a shot in the dark but I've had several Symas (various models) that came with bad SD cards and acted as you described. I went out and just got my own better quality cards and they work fine.

The other videos I shoot are fine. Thank you, though.

 

[GlassKnees]

The file may have gotten corrupt in the crash, like perhaps it couldn't close properly. Try reading it into some other application, such as a video converter (like Movavi), or video editor, like Moviemaker or iMovie and see if it can be read and viewed, or converted. There are tools for fixing corrupt video files - do a search...