My personal review of Samsung NX300

missT2 wrote:

Hello

you seem very familiar with this camera the Samsung NX300 -- I recently purchased this camera and was using this camera with the 50-200 mm lense. After I pressed the record button to stop the recording the last image stayed on the screen. I was trying to change it to picture mode quickly;however, it would not unfreeze. I tried turning it off and back on and the image was still frozen. Desperate to get the camera moving again, I took the battery out and then put it back in and turned it back on. I was able then to move on with taking pictures...However, when reviewing my daughter's performance I had video'd was coming up with a triangle with an exclaimation point inside it with the words File error under it. Devistated, I can't seem to find anyway to recove the video. i pressed the menu button and a square apprears on the screen saying Not Supported.....

Do you have any suggestions that there may possibly still have the performance somewhere??

This camera is also my second one in 4 days because the first one I purchased wouldn't charge or turn on..

Thank you

Well, since this thread was resurrected anyway...

There was probably an issue writing the end of the file, so the file is corrupt.  Try playing the video with a current version of VLC (it is capable of playing the good portion of damaged files for many formats).  If you can get most of it to play with VLC, then you might be able to get the video open with an editor and cut then end of it, then export to get a good file.  Chances are though that the editors will refuse to open the damaged file, but it's not completely lost yet.  You can use a screen capture program to record the playback through VLC full screen, this most likely lose some quality, but at least you'll have something.  The error could have been cause by too slow of an SD card, or by a firmware bug, this used to happen to me more often with some of the older firmwares, on the current firmware I have yet to have it happen on my NX300.