Sometimes the .camrec file from Camtasia Studio can get corrupted. When this happens you can recover the recording from the file.

You will be able to tell when the Camtasia Studio recording is corrupted because when you go to open the file with Camtasia Studio it crashes. When it crashes you will get an error message saying:

Camtasia Studio has stopped working

Windows is checking for a solution to the problem

This happened to me for quite some time before I figured out that my camtasia recording was corrupted.

Camtasia Studio actually records in the AVI format and then puts it in a file with the extention of <filename>.camrec.

 

To recover the file you will need to download and install 7Zip File Manager which is a free program and available here.

Once you have installed 7Zip you will need to open the camrec file that is corrupted with it.

To do this

• Open 7Zip File Manager
• Navigate to the folder the camrec file is
• Right click on the file and select open
• Find the .AVI file
• Select the .AVI file
• Click the Extract button in the ribbon at the top

Now if you go back to windows explorer the .AVI file that is the actual Camtasia recording will be recovered from the camrec file.