This is a follow-up post to this general explaination of retiming methods.

As the 5D mark II can still only record in 30 fps because there is no firmware update to record in more useful 25 fps (for pal DVD/TV) or 24 fps (for cinema projection), the need to retime footage from 30 fps to 25 fps definitely still exists. There are many methods to do this, but many are not as high quality as one would like. In this blog post I will explain what methods exists for retiming exist, what they look like and in the next follow up post I will show how to do high quality retiming in After Effects.

I just made my sister very happy by recovering lost photos from her last holliday that were still on a flash card but unreadable. If you ever need a tool like this the best one for this job in my experience is PhotoRec. It doesn't have a great user interface, but it works very well and is available on a number of plattforms. If you don't know exactly what option to choose when it asks you something, just pick the default (just be sure to select the right drive to recover from and a folder on your hd to save the recovered images to).