Problems playing video in iMovie

Hi, I copied some video footage over from a friends macbook onto mine but now it wont play. It's an .mp4 file and it plays the sound but only with a black screen. I have tried it in various video playing software such as VLC and Quicktime but they are all the same. When I open the video in iMovie, it shows the images in the video so I know the data is there but again, when i play it, a black screen. Help?! Is converting it to another file type likely to help recover the data?! Please don't tell me the video is lost as I have no way of getting it back again!!!

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