Recovering a clip from a Crashed iMovie project?

I was recording a clip from iSight when the machine froze.... upon a reboot, my project was empty - although it is 900MB!!
I found a clip (900MB big) in the Media folder within the project, but when I double click it, quicktime says it can't read it....
Any way to read or make my 900MB file work again?????
help...
Thanks!

Any way to read or make my 900MB file work again????
It's probably not fixable. If QuickTime can't read a movie, it's generally unrecoverable.
Most likely the file was damaged when the freeze occurred.
Sorry.
Karl

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