Damaged movie file
My computer crashed yesterday as I was in the process of editing a project in Final Cut Express HD. A few minutes earlier I had imported a movie file into the project that was located on an external hard drive, and after I was forced to restart the computer this file could no longer be viewed in Final Cut Express or even opened on its own in quicktime. I'm guessing that the file was somehow corrupted by being open in a project when the computer crashed. (the project was not saved in between me importing the file and the computer crashing as it was only a matter of a couple of minutes). In FC express I get an error (34) message. In quicktime I get a 'the end of the file was reached' message when I try to open the movie. Any idea if the file is recoverable? It was only the one file that was damaged.
How simple would it be to recapture the file ? It might be quicker than finding if the file could be recovered.
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