Crashed before finished writing Quicktime movie

I have a webcam program that was making a quicktime movie. It crashed before it finished, and the movie is 5 Gig so I know the data are there but I can't open it - QT says "not a valid file" presumably because the file wasn't closed with the rid terminator data or something like that. How do I convert it or at least see the 5 Gig of video that I did get before it crashed??

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