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.
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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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