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  1. I exported a movie from Final Cut Pro into a quicktime file. Somehow my hard drive (firewire) lost connection at 99% - the file itself should be good (I thought it was anyway) but I tried opening it today and nothing will read it - QT Player, FCP, nothing. Is there any way to repair this? (I think it's a matter of fixing the header which I know the settings to since I exported it like I export all my other QT movie files from FCP.)

    Unfortunately this was part of an even bigger project, so to free up hard drive space I deleted the capture scratch files after the final edits were finished and exported. Doh.

    The only program that has remotely touched this is ffmpegX, which claims it is MPEG 2 video at 720 x 480 and AC3 audio (it's not - it's just a straight DV export, but it got the resolution correct).

    Anyway, I was able to recover all of the video from render scratch, however the audio is 90% missing and the only shot I have is to recover it from this file that no app has recognized thus far.

    Any help would be appreciated.

  2. Have you tried previewing the file in ffmpegx to see if it looks (and sounds)right?

    If it does, then you might have some hope - though it probably will be lots of work.

    suggestion for the future - I use the export to camera function to back up my projects in progress. I might use 2-3 tapes to make sure I have copies in case of problems.

    Good Luck, CGuy




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