01-03-2008, 07:48 PM

Imovie lost clips. any advice?
this is the first time i have posted on a forum so apologies if something is wrong. so heres the problem:

i was recording in Imovie HD when and had to shut down mid recording, the file was not sent to the Imovie trash but to the finders trash. so am left with a .mov file of the recording however:

opening in vlc produces the error:
mp4: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov box)

dragging the clip back into imovie produces the error:
"the file failed to be imported - quicktime could not parse the file - 2048"

i tried using a program called file juicer which produced the movie clip in a 1000's of jpegs. so i know that there is the full content is still in the file. i hope there is a way of recovering this clip. its 3gb in size

i also used file salvage to search for any lost clips but none were found

i have checked in the media folder in the package contents in the projects but i did not find any files. i would like to get these corrupted imovie clip files to work some how if anyone could give me some advice it would be great

thnks

01-04-2008, 03:37 AM

It sounds like the file is corrupted. Just because File Juicer can parse it does not mean it isn't corrupted.

You should simply delete the current file and reimport the content. That is the clean way of fixing your issue, and any other solution may not be as reliable. That 3GB file is less than 15 minutes of DV content, so it won't take long to re-import.

Next time when you have to shutdown down, first tell iMovie to stop recording and exit it properly after it has done its stuff.

01-04-2008, 10:11 AM

It is better to do what zstep suggested. It would a major headache to try and fix a corrupted file, than to just replace it.

01-04-2008, 12:11 PM

i have no means of reimporting the clip. could you give me some advice as to how to fix the corrupted file?

01-04-2008, 12:44 PM

The problem is the data could be all corrupted and non usable. I not sure if there is a way to fix your corrupted file.

01-04-2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by luke10000

i have no means of reimporting the clip. could you give me some advice as to how to fix the corrupted file?

OH. NOW you tell us.

The application you mentioned is extracting the images from what you tell us. So, you need something that can take a sequence of images and make a movie or animation out of those and eventually get it back into a QuickTime .mov file.

As for the audio, you'd need a similar extracting program. I don't know of anything.

I entered the words "fix corrupted quicktime movie" into Google and came up with the following...

Here is a tip.

Finally, perhaps this guy can help you.

Good luck. If you find a solution, please post it on this thread.