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HUGE PROBLEM with quicktime files
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Sorry, but it sounds like you are hosed. The two files that don’t show a codec, they sound like they are REALLY corrupted. The rest…not sure. HOW were they recorded? Direct to disk…did they use ON LOCATION from Adobe, or what? HOW did they record these files to hard drive?
Seems to be a codec issue with the main files…that is why I am thinking while the are DVCPRO HD, they were recorded with other software using their DVCPRO HD codec.
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Sounds like your data is corrupt. Any backups in place? how big are the files?
Jeremy
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I have the same problems capturing from digibeta tapes to harddrive as a *.mov file using the DV/DVCPRO compression through a Blackmagic deck control. When the capture completes, the files are often over 10 gigs but dont play. I always have to recapture them.
Unless you have a backup,try using a video converter like handbrake and see if it works.
https://handbrake.fr/?article=downloadGood luck
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Try this guy:
Benoit at:
He has done QT repairs for me before and he is professional and reasonable.
How it works is that he sends you a program which extracts a very small sample from your QT file which you return to him.
He then works on a repair program “kit” which he emails to you and that you run on your corrupt file. It’s very easy. You follow simple instructions.
If it works out ok, you pay him and he sends you a code so that you can save it – at least something like that.
His fee is $149
I have had two good experiences with him. He pretty much saved my bacon, in fact.
Please let me know how you get on.
You won’t regret it.
Best wishes.
Harry.
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[Amit Ghildiyal] “I have the same problems capturing from digibeta tapes to harddrive as a *.mov file using the DV/DVCPRO compression through a Blackmagic deck control. When the capture completes, the files are often over 10 gigs but dont play. I always have to recapture them. “
That makes no sense. We do this, and all manner of conversions, all the time with our Kona 3 cards and this is never an issue. Just making a simple conversion through a video card should not result in a file that does not play.
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A positive post, Harry, thanks for your contribution. Let’s hope it helps this poor guy out.
This doesn’t sound like corrupt files to me. It sounds to me like the capture was aborted instead of properly stopped. There is no header/tail information on these files.
And it appears like the production staff did nothing to test their proposed workflow. They certainly did nothing to protect themselves against (the now academic possibility of) failure. Recording directly to a hard drive is just so unreliable, not so much because the drive will fail, but because of the long list of weird stuff that can go wrong.
bogiesan
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I think I’ll be giving that a shot.
Thank you.
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I think I’ll be giving that a shot.
Thank you.
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[david bogie] “This doesn’t sound like corrupt files to me.”
No? When you have a corrupt file, the byte size will show that it seems to be 4GBs as there are that many spaces for bytes written in to the file. In reality, everything is filled with zeros so there’s no information what so ever. This sounds exactly like a corrupt file to me. Now, sometimes, you can actually go in to the file and fix the matrix, but it is hard. IF the file contains all zeros, there’s no information to retrieve.
[david bogie] ” Recording directly to a hard drive is just so unreliable, not so much because the drive will fail, but because of the long list of weird stuff that can go wrong. “
I also disagree here. You use the right tools with the right workflow, direct to disk capturing is a liberation. But always make a second recording to your internal camera mechanism.
Jeremy
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Why H264?
That is a delivery, not an editing codec.Have a wonderful day.
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