Formatted external hard drive, trying to recover files I missed off when backing up.

I recently formatted my seagate 500gb external hard drive, thinking all the files/projects were backed up.
Some of them weren't (I'm not sure how/why, could be human error or the transfer failed but unfortunately i was rushing and didn't check)
but this includes includes my current FCPX events and projects which were on the library of the external hard drive.
I've run Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recovery on said hard drive

So..
I ran the recovery software on the hard drive, I've managed to salvage some .mov media files and a bunch of other stuff I think could be related to what I need.
I've recovered these onto another external drive but when I go to play them it says 'error quicktime cannot be used to play'
The thumbnail is quicktime and it opens in quicktime as default.
I was wondering if anyone knows how I can access the files or do you need me to provide more info than that to know how to do so.
If anyone has any further knowledge of recovering any sorts of FCPX or video files from a formatted hard drive then I'd be very appreciative.
I imagine the FCP projects and events or anything to do with that are gone forever, just can't work out anything else I can do to salvage clips.
Anything you think may help my situation would be great, I've just lost out on a lot of money from these projects just before christmas so even moral support will help ha!
Cheers.

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