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My Online Lecture Videos Got Corrupted But Repairit Saved Them

How I restored 90 hours of Psychology lecture videos and all supporting materials after a server transfer corrupted Zoom recordings, PDFs, and slides

Dr. Rachel Thornton

University Professor

Canada

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Repairit Real User Story

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I'm Dr. Rachel Thornton, a University Professor based in Canada. I teach a 200-student Psychology course where every Zoom lecture is recorded in 1080p and shared through our LMS so students can revisit complex concepts. At the end of the semester, I moved the full 90-hour archive to our university server, and suddenly many MP4 files showed black screens or “This video file cannot be played.” Several PDFs wouldn't open, and key PPT decks were scrambled. My heart dropped because exam preparation depended on these materials. I turned to Wondershare Repairit, and within two hours the first repaired lecture played perfectly, audio and slides fully in sync.

Dr. Rachel Thornton

University Professor

Canada

Video File Damage Situation

Challenge

I realized something was seriously wrong when I opened my lecture folder after the server transfer. The primary lecture recordings, MP4 files recorded via Zoom in 1080p H.264, totaling 142GB across 45 sessions, either showed black screens, froze on the first frame. A few opened with audio three seconds ahead of the slides, making them unusable for studying. At the same time, 120 PDF lecture notes displayed garbled text, and 45 PPTX decks lost layout, fonts, and embedded charts. With final exams only two weeks away, students urgently needed access for revision. Re-recording 90 hours of content was impossible.

Solution

I found Repairit after a colleague in our department mentioned using it to recover corrupted thesis files. I installed Repairit and loaded a small batch of the most critical Zoom MP4 lectures into the Video Repair module. First, I tried Quick Repair to test the workflow, then switched to Advanced Repair for deeper reconstruction. The interface was simple: add files, select repair mode, and let the process run. For a few severely damaged clips, I supplied a healthy sample recording from the same course so Repairit could rebuild the structure more accurately. Within about forty minutes, the preview for our midterm review lecture appeared, playing smoothly with synchronized audio and crisp shared-screen slides. Confident in the results, I queued the remaining recordings and let batch processing handle the rest while continuing my other work.

Results

The Magic of Saving a Full Semester of Online Lectures

The repaired videos were crystal clear, audio perfectly synced, and slides matched my explanations. All 45 lectures, 120 PDFs, and 45 PPTX files were restored flawlessly. What could have been a major academic disruption turned into a quiet save behind the scenes.