Wedding

Rescuing the Father’s Final Dance: 4K ProRes Barn Wedding Footage Recovery

How I saved 41 minutes of irreplaceable wedding memories and preserved a family’s final treasure with Wondershare Repairit.

Brooklyn Hayes

Rustic wedding videographer

Nashville, USA

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Repairit Real User Story

A rustic wedding videographer reviewing restored 4K ProRes barn wedding footage

I’m Brooklyn Hayes, a rustic wedding videographer based in Nashville, USA. I’ve filmed more than 120 Southern barn weddings, but Savannah and Luke’s was different. Her father, battling terminal cancer, danced with her one last time under string lights in a historic Franklin barn. I captured every second on my Sony A7S III in 4K ProRes. During reception transfers, a guest spilled sweet tea on my laptop, short-circuiting it instantly. When I learned the father-daughter dance clip was corrupted, I couldn’t stop crying. At midnight, I found Wondershare Repairit. 21 minutes later, the footage played perfectly again. That relief is something I’ll never forget.

Brooklyn Hayes

Rustic wedding videographer

Nashville, USA

Video File Damage Situation

Challenge

The damage became clear right after the reception. A sweet tea spill had short-circuited my laptop during file transfers, and although a data recovery shop retrieved the drive, 23 of 37 MOV files were corrupted. The most critical loss was the father-daughter dance captured in 4K ProRes. Every attempt to open the clips returned corruption errors, leaving 41 minutes of unusable footage. This wasn’t just wedding video; it was the final memory of a father fighting terminal cancer, shared with his daughter on her wedding day. There was no chance to recreate it. Every hour mattered, and the emotional weight of losing that moment was overwhelming.

Solution

At midnight, exhausted and desperate, I discovered Wondershare Repairit through a professional videography forum. The process was straightforward. I selected the corrupted ProRes MOV files, chose Advanced Repair, and provided a healthy sample clip from the same Sony A7S III. Repairit processed all 23 damaged files over 81 minutes, rebuilding the data frame by frame. When the preview loaded, I held my breath. The father-daughter dance played flawlessly—crystal-clear audio, smooth motion, and full 4K detail. Even the S-Log3 color profile was intact, ready for grading. In that moment, I knew the footage—and the memory—was truly saved.

Results

The Father-Daughter Dance Played Perfectly Again—in Full 4K ProRes

When Savannah watched her father twirl her across the barn floor in the final film, she sobbed with joy. Three weeks later, her father passed away. Repairit didn’t just recover video files—it preserved a family’s final treasure. All 23 ProRes clips were restored with perfect audio sync, full 4K quality, and intact S-Log3 color data, ensuring every frame of that last dance lives on.