Treasured's Movie Repair Guide -- Prevention

How to prevent future problems


Going through a movie repair is expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes the damaged footage cannot be recovered at all.


Since 2007 we have been dealing with corrupt movie files and there is a clear pattern of dangerous situations and behaviors. By observing the few rules below, the chances of failure are cut by an order of magnitude:



This is indeed what every video professional should already be doing.


See also related blog post: Advice to prevent movie corruption