Can i pull just one file off time capsule?

I have successfully used my airport time capsule to transfer all information from my old Mac to my new Mac but somehow in the new iTunes update, I lost a video located in home movies. Is there a way to go into time capsule to retrieve only one file? Fortunately I had another external hard drive back up and was able to get this one, but wondering if I should keep using another external hard drive as a second back up.

Files that are held in libraries cannot be recovered without recovering the whole library.. that is not the fault of Time Machine or the TC.. it is the way apple structure its files now.
See the info from pondini on restoring files.
Q15 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I think in our present state of affairs with TM becoming less than reliable.. I would encourage everyone to use a bootable clone.. eg Carbon Copy Cloner which will hold the files in the identical manner to your hard disk.. if a file is lost from your hard disk boot from the clone and you can then extract it from the library.. but it works differently and so changes will be made to the backup as they happen on the computer.. therefore it is important to also keep libraries in separate backups.

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I have a 1TB Time Capsule (DualBand) that I use like a NAS (network attached storage). Time Machine is disabled, but I manually copy files on the Time Capsule's disk when I want to back them up, and share them with other computers in my house.
I am trying to copy all of the files of the Time Capsule to a 2 TB Firewire 800 drive connected to my MacBook Pro, but I'm having a problem. About half-way through the the copy process (which is estimated to be an over-night ordeal) the Time Capsule is disconnected and I get the error:
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ashwinraj wrote:
I have a 1TB Time Capsule (DualBand) that I use like a NAS (network attached storage). Time Machine is disabled, but I manually copy files on the Time Capsule's disk when I want to back them up, and share them with other computers in my house.
I am trying to copy all of the files of the Time Capsule to a 2 TB Firewire 800 drive connected to my MacBook Pro, but I'm having a problem. About half-way through the the copy process (which is estimated to be an over-night ordeal) the Time Capsule is disconnected and I get the error:
+The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data+
+in "" could not be read or written.+
+(Error code -36)+
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tom,
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