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MPEG Streamclip Altered Original files.

I recently did a video shoot with a Canon 7D. I loaded 2 16gb cards onto a Lacie Rugged drive into seperate folders. After the shoot all the original files worked fine for playback with Quicktime and editing.


I then used MPEG Streamclip to convert the first cards footage to Apple ProRes. The harddrive ran out of memory halfway through the conversion and MPEG Streamclip canceled the batch conversion.


I went back to the original files and only about 5 random few out of 90 shots would still work with quicktime and editing while the rest no longer open. I read somewhere that if you don't rename the newly converted files then something happens so I deleted the new ProRes files. Nothing changed. I'm guessing that MPEG Streamclip altered the original files somehow?


When trying to open in Quicktime Player 7 I get "The movie could not be opened. The end of the file was reached."


I then tried to open the now working files in VLC and they work fine.



All the footage from the second card all works fine still.


I used VideoSpec to look at what was going on and compare between a working clip and a not working one. There were no difference in format or anything other than duration.


Container: MOV - Quicktime

Format: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

Encoding Profile: Baseline@L5.0




Please help me get these files working again! I can not recreate this footage!!!! I know the information is still all there because the files can be played with VLC, I just can't edit with them anymore...

MPEG Streamclip-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MPEG Streamclip Conversion Error

Posted on May 30, 2013 12:46 PM

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May 30, 2013 2:08 PM in response to LeoAhrens

LeoAhrens wrote:

I'm guessing that MPEG Streamclip altered the original files somehow?

Not likely, more probable that the drive directory or file structure was damaged while trying to write to a full disk.


Do you have the original camera cards, or back up copies?


If you do, return to them and start the process over again with more disk space.

If not, you should backup what QT files you have now on the corrupted disk in case something else occurs.


After that:


If it were me, I would run Disk Warrior to repair the disk directory -


http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/


QuickTime movies are very, very hard to recover if corrupted, but you can try QuickTime Repair from Digital Rebellion, part of the Pro Maintenance Tool Package -


http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/


I believe they have a free trial offer.



MtD

MPEG Streamclip Altered Original files.

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