Cameras & formats
Generic recovery tools look for generic files. ShotRevive’s recovery models are trained around the photo, RAW, and video structures photographers and videographers actually create—so the program can understand the shoot, not merely return an unexplained pile of files.
Why ShotRevive is built to be better for photographers and videographers.
Every major camera ecosystem
Training coverage spans files produced by Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic Lumix, OM System and Olympus, Leica, Pentax and Ricoh, Hasselblad, DJI, GoPro, Blackmagic Design, and RED.
The formats creators depend on
The program is trained for common photo, camera-RAW, and video families—from JPEG, HEIC, and DNG to CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, RW2, ORF, RWL, PEF, MOV, and MP4.
A recovered shoot—not a file pile
ShotRevive is designed to preview, triage, and rebuild useful groups using capture timing and available camera metadata, with a workflow that protects the source card.
Proof before promises: training coverage is not the same as a recovery guarantee. A camera and file combination will be labeled supported only after repeatable validation, with limitations published clearly.
Memory cards, hard drives and SSDs
ShotRevive scans camera cards, external hard drives, SSDs, USB drives and second internal drives, as well as disk images. Because it recognizes photos, RAW files and video by their internal structure instead of relying on the drive’s folders, it can find them after a format or when a drive’s file system is damaged.
- Memory cards: SD, microSD, CFexpress, CompactFlash and XQD
- Drives: external hard drives and SSDs, USB drives and second internal drives
- Disk images, including ShotRevive’s own safe copies of a failing card or drive
Your computer’s own system drive is never offered as a source. Recovering safely from it means working from a copy.
On the roadmap
- Original file names and folders from Windows (NTFS) drives, including fragmented video
- Mac drives
- RAID, NAS and network storage used by editors and studios
Support labels should mean something.
The prototype recognizes structures from common photo, camera-raw, and video families. Each format is being tested separately before it is described as production-ready.
Our standard: Publish the misses. Separate logical recovery from physical damage. Never describe a format as supported because one sample happened to open.
Formats in development testing
Listing a format here is not a recovery guarantee.
Prototype build log
20 fixture files examined so far:
- 11 byte-for-byte matches
- 4 recovered from slack space
- 3 partial results
- 2 missed
A small internal development fixture—not a success-rate claim. The misses are the work.
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