Rescuing Corrupt .mov file

My Mac had a kernel panic TWO DAYS into rendering a flythrough. Even though the application I'm using saves the .mov frame-by-frame, the resultant .mov can't be opened: "Error Opening Movie: The movie could not be opened".
The file is 240MB, so I'm assuming that the raw frames are in there somewhere...
How can I get them out?

Hi, Tim
I can give it a try, but cannot guarantee success.
Please send me an email at: info at aeroquartet.com
Regards, BJ

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Digital Rebellion has a editing maintenance tool kit that may be of use. One of the items does its best to repair QT files.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
There is a trial version. The full version is ~$140. If your material is otherwise lost, and these tools save it, it's inexpensive.
In the mode of "locking the barn after you lost the canoe paddle downstream", this is why you should ALWAYS have a backup of your material before you start editing.
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I have a Mac OS X version 10.6.8 with a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory.
I have recently shot some still and moving footage on my Cannon EOS 500 D (digital camera) using an AMICOE SD C10 8 GB high speed memory card.
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I have an important corrupted video file and I have tried every way I can think of to open it, but to no avail...
When I open it with Quicktime, an "error 2048 unsupported format" shows up, even though other videos I took are fine.
I can't open this video with ANY softwares including VLC and friends (trust me, I tried LOADS of them)..
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I was resently recording a discussion with my PowerBook and I used QuickTime Pros "New recording" function. A friendly member of the discussion board pushed the reset button in my computer resulting it to shut down.
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Thanks Roger. I appreciate the feedback. I did a search, but it seems I didn't go far enough back in time. As I haven't had this problem before, I suspected it was something new brought about by either Garageband and/or iWeb in their latest renditions.
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Hello,
Corrupt movies like yours can be recovered. It's quite hard, you have to rebuild the movie index.
There's a free application called Treasured to diagnose and preview your damaged movie files:
http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/download.html
Treasured also explains how to contact the right person to get your movie repaired (me
"I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."
Regards, BJ

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