Stellar Photo Recovery Premium – Best multimedia files recovery application
Stellar Photo Recovery Premium is a unique multimedia files (photos, videos, and audio files) restoration software which will help you recover deleted photo. It is the world’s first software with both ‘recovery’ and ‘repair’ capabilities for photos and videos.
Videos, photos, and audio recordings taken with DSLRs, camcorders, drones, CCTV, Nanny cams, dash-cams, mobile phones etc., if lost, deleted or corrupt can be easily recovered and repaired with the help of the software. The software works, irrespective of the storage media and cause of the loss.
Stellar Photo Recovery Premium is easy and straightforward. Anybody can use this DIY software, which runs on both Windows and macOS devices.
Recovers all media file formats from storage drive/media
You can restore lost and deleted photos, videos, movies, podcasts, music, karaoke compositions and other recordings from memory card, SD card, SDXC, SDHC, flash drive, memory stick, computer, external hard drives, CD/DVD etc.
The software works in all common data loss scenarios such as accidental deletion, formatting, virus attack, bad sectors in the drive, partition losses, operating system crash, and corruption, etc. The recovery process is simple and quick with the default Quick Scan mode.Further, Deep Scan mode helps you maximize recovery of the lost media files in tough scenarios.
The scan time varies with the size of the storage media, amount of data, and the specific data loss situation.
Repairs your corrupt photos and videos
Use the repair function of Stellar Photo Recovery Premium to fix corrupt videos and photos.
The software repairs broken, grainy, pixelated, distorted, greyed-out and many other issues in the images. Along with the popular JPEG files, you can repair RAW camera files formats of brands like Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Sony, Olympus, etc. – a rare capability seen in any tool. However, the RAW files are saved in JPEG format after repair.
The video repair feature repairs both video and audio file corruption. The software is helpful, if you want to fix grains, blurriness, black screen, out-of-sync, no sound or any other issue in your videos.
It also brings ‘Advanced Repair’ feature to fix severely corrupt JPEG/JPGs and video files by using ‘sample file’ — a working JPEG/video file created with the same device as for your corrupt file.
How does Stellar Photo Recovery Premium work?
When you run the software on a Windows PC or Mac, the home screen presents three functionalities —
1) Recover Photo, Audio & Video
2) Repair Photos
3) Repair Videos
Figure: Home screen Stellar Photo Recovery Premium on Windows PC
The process to use each utility is simple –
- Connect the storage drive or media with computer
- Launch the software
- Click the required function and follow the simple onscreen instructions.
Recovery process
For instance, if you click ‘Recover Photo, Audio & Video’ option the steps to recovery process are:
- Click What to Recover from options – all Multimedia files, photos, videos or audio. Next Select Location
Figure: ‘Select Location’ screen under ‘Recover Photo, Audio & Video’
- Click Scan. The software scans the selected drive or storage media. You can ‘Stop’ the scanning process anytime in between and save the scan information for later use.
Figure: Scanning during recovery process
- Click Recover to save the found photos, videos, and audio. You can preview the found files before saving.
Repair process
The repair process of photos and videos is also kept simple in three steps – Add File, Repair and Preview & Save.
Figure: Photo Repair process screenshots of the software
Key Benefits
- Easy to use
- Recover and repair with a single software
- Recover files with original date, time, and file names
- Extensive media file format support
- Repair RAW camera files like CR2, SR2, DNG, ORF etc.
- Preview before saving at desired location
- Customized options for quick and specific recovery
- Scan storage media up to 5TB capacity
What could be better?
- Scanning time increaseswith drive size and amount of data on it
- Repaired RAW images are saved in JPEG format
- The efficient feature like ‘Advance Repair’ using sample file, though works on multiple video formats but is limited to JPEGin photo repair
- Demo version doesn’t let you save any file, though you can preview the file to ascertain the effectiveness of the software
Editions – Stellar Photo Recovery Premium
Stellar Photo Recovery Premium also has – Standard and Professional editions to meet the specific needs of the users.
The Standard version only recovers photos, videos, and audio files from drives and media while the Professional has all the Standard features, plus, it repairs corrupt photos. You can choose any of them as per your needs.
Final Verdict
Stellar Photo Recovery Premium is a DIY software with several impressive features for media file recovery and repair. The GUI is strikingly clean and easy to use. Besides, it’s the world’s first recovery and repair software for photos and videos, so definitely brings you an edge.
The software allows users to enjoy a worry-free experience with curating their videos and photos without the fear of losing them. It also spares them from buying separate photo recovery and repair tools.
If you are a wedding photographer, videographer, video editor, vlogger, cinematographer, or an agency who has to manage thousands of photos, videos, and audio files, the recovery and repair software is for you.
The free demo version of the software helps you evaluate all the functions of the software and lets you preview the files after recovery or repair to ascertain its capabilities. To save the recovered files, you need to purchase a license key and activate the full version. This is really great if you are looking for best photo recovery software in 2020.