Help Possible MTS Corrupt?

[bramble90]

Hi,

I'm sorry I'm completely new to this tech thing and I'm freaking out a little because I have a deadline due tmr.
Its a stab at the dark but I'm keeping my fingers crossed if anyone has a solution.

I'm using a Panasonic X920, and have some video files on the SD card.
It doesn't show up as individual video files when plugged into the laptop just a generic AVCHD file (which I can open with quicktime; i'm on a mac btw)
So I open the files with Quicktime, hoping to then export it as movie files to physically save into my laptop (which I have done before)
But as one of the files was too big? (2hrs ish long) Quicktime crashed, and I think that f**ked up the encoding because now I can't seem to open any file after that one, including that.

I have the mts, xmp, cpi files but I know the encoding has f**ked up somewhere.
Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Much much much appreciated. TYSM

[smrpix]

You're a bit behind the 8-ball with a mac, but you're also vague on details.

How are you connected to the mac, USB? What software are you using Quicktime X? Do you have FCPX which would make this task infinitely easier? Have you tried copying the entire structure of your SD card to the computer, not simply individual files?

A 2 hour + recording will necessarily involve spanned clips which requires proper software to interpret (FCPX, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer -- Panasonic's own software is not mac compatible.)

You probably haven't actually f**ked up any of your material yet -- but you're well on the way

[poisondeathray]

Check if you can play it in the camera. If you can, it's not corrupt

[bramble90]

it is, it now says it can't be played on this model on the camera, and when I plug in the SD card on the computer, the respective mts files says 0kb :/

[poisondeathray]

That's not a good sign

Do not write anything to the card

Take out the card, reset the camera (look in your manual for the procedure), re-insert the card, then try again


If that still doesn't work, you're next step it to look at file recovery software options