.MOV file not recognized

Apologies if this issue has been addressed before...
Today I discovered that Finder is not recognizing several of my .MOV files. These are usually displayed as a small icon (image) from the video. Nor can these videos be played in QuickTime. I sincerely hope this can be resolved as the masters were deleted from my iPhone 5 upon upload from Image Capture.
My specs:
MacBook Pro OSX  10.9.5
2.5 GHZ Intel Core i5
8 GB RAM
QuickTime 10.3
Many thanks for your input/suggestions.
Best,
Brandt

Hi,
there are two possibilities: The first one is, that the files are broken and thus can't be viewed. The second possibility is that the .mov files are using a codec your Quicktime Player can't display. You have to check this first. Open one of your .mov files with a tool like Media Inspector (http://mediainspector.massanti.com). This will show a lot of details of the movie clip including the used codec.
However, if you have shot the footage with your iPhone 5 the codec should be H.264 (or AVC, which is just another name for the same). Quicktime should be able to view it.
Please post more details.
Yours,
Guenther

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