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Broken Mov. recovery
Hello wonderful people,
Long and the short of my problem is that I have an Mov. shot on T21 that imported broken or corrupted, and the original card is formatted. Premier will not import the file but VLC will play it, the audio is not an issue as it is not needed. Is there any way to get premier to recognize the Mov. though? Or perhaps trans-code it, Streamclip will not work tried that. All I need are the images, a jpeg series would be fine…as long as it is not a series of broken Jpegs.
Thank you for your support CC community,
Devin J. Smith
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4 Replies
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Hi,
Even if I knew the specifics of how that file is apparently corrupted I don’t think I would know which application might be able to rescue it for you. Perhaps others on this forum will know. But I think you’re generally on the right track: trying every app that you can think of to play the file and then, most important, trying to get that app to export it into a new .mov file. QuickTime Pro would be my first choice. Then I would try After Effects (which I think might be the best choice). If you or your colleagues have Final Cut Studio, you could try FCP or Compressor. Other good encoding programs such as Episode would be worth a shot. I can’t recall if VLC has an export function but I don’t think so.By the way, don’t take offense with me giving some after-the-fact advice. My DP and I are fanatics about backing up video data before we reformat any card. Usually he and I both make a disk image of the card and then I import the data into the edit system. Only then do we format a card. I know…what we do is overkill. But it’s very cheap insurance.
Good luck.
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Thanks for the advice, and quite right. We do the same, but for some reason did not with this shot. We use a two hard-drive dump system, and then check it in Premier but on this card I copied the file from the first hard drive not the card, and thus my problem and I didn’t on check in Premier on this shoot due to time crunch, and this is what you get for rushing. Let it be a lesson to all.
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Devin –
If it plays in VLC, there’s a streaming/exporting feature that just may save your bacon. Go to the File>Streaming/Exporting Wizard. I hope this helps.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Thanks for your help. Export wizard creates a nice readable transport stream file, however the .ts file won’t import into premier, so if anyone else runs into this problem you need to rename the file .mpg. Premier is happy with it so far.
Devin J Smith
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