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I went into the Capture Scratch folder on my hard drive and saw that the missing files were in fact there, but when I tried to play them in Quicktime it said they weren't movie files at all. They seem to be corrupt, but I don't know how this could have happened. All of the clips are in .mov format.
How can I retrieve my clips without having to import everything again? Could it matter that I set specific in and out points when ingesting the video? I don't mind having to import the clips again if needed, but I just don't want to have to run into the same problem again.

I don't think so. I just plugged it in and started using it when I got it about a year ago. It hasn't given me any issues until now (if the hard drive is in fact the issue...).

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