"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys - I have a serious problem and am hoping some of you can help.
> I was away at a special memorial in Poland celebrating the 60th
> anniversary of liberation of the concentration camps there. I was
> filming an interview with a camp survivor with my new Nikon camera, a
> pretty cool device that takes MOV files. Unfortunately I may not have
> seen the indicator not to pull out the card (switching to a new one)
> while it was saving and ended up truncating the movie I guess. All
> others are playable except for this 228MB quicktime MOV file which
> does not play.
>
> In Media Play Classic I get the following error message:
>
> Failed to render file
>
> In Quicktime I get the following:
>
> Couldn't open the file DSCN0945.MOV because it is not a file that
> QuickTime understands.
>
> Now I have seen many open these files - it does contain data and is
> 228MB - but using imovie or final draft express, two applications I
> don't have. Others have been able to rename the file to a .dv to
> extract the audio and video. For several reasons this has not worked
> for me although I'm happy to try any piece of software you can
> suggest. Since this is such a special file, I'd really go the extra
> mile to extract what I have which should be pretty substantial. If
> suggestions don't work I have put the file up at
> http://www.jsoul.com/files/DSCN0945.MOV for download. Heck, I don't
> care of the bandwidth costs either and would appreciate it greatly if
> someone can help me with this or I'll even pay if need be. As you can
> understand, it's pretty special and for some of you it may even have
> some sentimental value as well.
>
> Thanks so much in advance for any recommendations and assistance.

>
>"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
>news:sgvu71lg8jq22m54eb9orvbi5bv7nkv1sh@4ax.com...
>> Hi guys - I have a serious problem and am hoping some of you can help.
>> I was away at a special memorial in Poland celebrating the 60th
>> anniversary of liberation of the concentration camps there. I was
>> filming an interview with a camp survivor with my new Nikon camera, a
>> pretty cool device that takes MOV files. Unfortunately I may not have
>> seen the indicator not to pull out the card (switching to a new one)
>> while it was saving and ended up truncating the movie I guess. All
>> others are playable except for this 228MB quicktime MOV file which
>> does not play.
>>
>> In Media Play Classic I get the following error message:
>>
>> Failed to render file
>>
>> In Quicktime I get the following:
>>
>> Couldn't open the file DSCN0945.MOV because it is not a file that
>> QuickTime understands.
>>
>> Now I have seen many open these files - it does contain data and is
>> 228MB - but using imovie or final draft express, two applications I
>> don't have. Others have been able to rename the file to a .dv to
>> extract the audio and video. For several reasons this has not worked
>> for me although I'm happy to try any piece of software you can
>> suggest. Since this is such a special file, I'd really go the extra
>> mile to extract what I have which should be pretty substantial. If
>> suggestions don't work I have put the file up at
>> http://www.jsoul.com/files/DSCN0945.MOV for download. Heck, I don't
>> care of the bandwidth costs either and would appreciate it greatly if
>> someone can help me with this or I'll even pay if need be. As you can
>> understand, it's pretty special and for some of you it may even have
>> some sentimental value as well.
>>
>> Thanks so much in advance for any recommendations and assistance.
>
>  Odd, if you open the file in "Open Image Sequence..." the preview
>shows a scene where there are a bunch of guys in orange baseball
>caps.  So there is image data there that at least part of Quicktime can
>recognize.  So far nothing else I've tried can get past the headers and
>extract the image stream.  I'll have to dig out my old file recovery tools.
>
>Luck;
>    Ken

"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
news:qss081dmo4q187qe6ltekogovs11dpqvim@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 00:48:43 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
> <kmal***@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:sgvu71lg8jq22m54eb9orvbi5bv7nkv1sh@4ax.com...
>>> Hi guys - I have a serious problem and am hoping some of you can help.
>>> I was away at a special memorial in Poland celebrating the 60th
>>> anniversary of liberation of the concentration camps there. I was
>>> filming an interview with a camp survivor with my new Nikon camera, a
>>> pretty cool device that takes MOV files. Unfortunately I may not have
>>> seen the indicator not to pull out the card (switching to a new one)
>>> while it was saving and ended up truncating the movie I guess. All
>>> others are playable except for this 228MB quicktime MOV file which
>>> does not play.
>>>
>>> In Media Play Classic I get the following error message:
>>>
>>> Failed to render file
>>>
>>> In Quicktime I get the following:
>>>
>>> Couldn't open the file DSCN0945.MOV because it is not a file that
>>> QuickTime understands.
>>>
>>> Now I have seen many open these files - it does contain data and is
>>> 228MB - but using imovie or final draft express, two applications I
>>> don't have. Others have been able to rename the file to a .dv to
>>> extract the audio and video. For several reasons this has not worked
>>> for me although I'm happy to try any piece of software you can
>>> suggest. Since this is such a special file, I'd really go the extra
>>> mile to extract what I have which should be pretty substantial. If
>>> suggestions don't work I have put the file up at
>>> http://www.jsoul.com/files/DSCN0945.MOV for download. Heck, I don't
>>> care of the bandwidth costs either and would appreciate it greatly if
>>> someone can help me with this or I'll even pay if need be. As you can
>>> understand, it's pretty special and for some of you it may even have
>>> some sentimental value as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks so much in advance for any recommendations and assistance.
>>
>>  Odd, if you open the file in "Open Image Sequence..." the preview
>>shows a scene where there are a bunch of guys in orange baseball
>>caps.  So there is image data there that at least part of Quicktime can
>>recognize.  So far nothing else I've tried can get past the headers and
>>extract the image stream.  I'll have to dig out my old file recovery
>>tools.
>>
>>Luck;
>>    Ken
>
> Ken - Thank you!!!!! Yes, this was a group of people who were
> listening and gathered around the speaker! Later I was able to sneak
> to the front. I couldn't even get as far as you did...
>
> Using a text editor I opened the file and it seems that there is a
> definite beginning and ending so I'm not sure what went wrong.
>

>
>"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
>news:qss081dmo4q187qe6ltekogovs11dpqvim@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 10 May 2005 00:48:43 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
>> <kmal***@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"JSOUL dot com" <tkdREMOVESPAMinthecity@yahSPAMoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:sgvu71lg8jq22m54eb9orvbi5bv7nkv1sh@4ax.com...
>>>> Hi guys - I have a serious problem and am hoping some of you can help.
>>>> I was away at a special memorial in Poland celebrating the 60th
>>>> anniversary of liberation of the concentration camps there. I was
>>>> filming an interview with a camp survivor with my new Nikon camera, a
>>>> pretty cool device that takes MOV files. Unfortunately I may not have
>>>> seen the indicator not to pull out the card (switching to a new one)
>>>> while it was saving and ended up truncating the movie I guess. All
>>>> others are playable except for this 228MB quicktime MOV file which
>>>> does not play.
>>>>
>>>> In Media Play Classic I get the following error message:
>>>>
>>>> Failed to render file
>>>>
>>>> In Quicktime I get the following:
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't open the file DSCN0945.MOV because it is not a file that
>>>> QuickTime understands.
>>>>
>>>> Now I have seen many open these files - it does contain data and is
>>>> 228MB - but using imovie or final draft express, two applications I
>>>> don't have. Others have been able to rename the file to a .dv to
>>>> extract the audio and video. For several reasons this has not worked
>>>> for me although I'm happy to try any piece of software you can
>>>> suggest. Since this is such a special file, I'd really go the extra
>>>> mile to extract what I have which should be pretty substantial. If
>>>> suggestions don't work I have put the file up at
>>>> http://www.jsoul.com/files/DSCN0945.MOV for download. Heck, I don't
>>>> care of the bandwidth costs either and would appreciate it greatly if
>>>> someone can help me with this or I'll even pay if need be. As you can
>>>> understand, it's pretty special and for some of you it may even have
>>>> some sentimental value as well.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much in advance for any recommendations and assistance.
>>>
>>>  Odd, if you open the file in "Open Image Sequence..." the preview
>>>shows a scene where there are a bunch of guys in orange baseball
>>>caps.  So there is image data there that at least part of Quicktime can
>>>recognize.  So far nothing else I've tried can get past the headers and
>>>extract the image stream.  I'll have to dig out my old file recovery
>>>tools.
>>>
>>>Luck;
>>>    Ken
>>
>> Ken - Thank you!!!!! Yes, this was a group of people who were
>> listening and gathered around the speaker! Later I was able to sneak
>> to the front. I couldn't even get as far as you did...
>>
>> Using a text editor I opened the file and it seems that there is a
>> definite beginning and ending so I'm not sure what went wrong.
>>
>
>  One thing you might try is to take a copy of another .mov clip
>made from that same camera, but working, and concatenate
>that in front of your bad clip.
>
>  In Windows:  "copy /B GoodClip.mov+BadClip.mov New.mov"
>
>   You might try it with first removing the bad header and first
>segment (in Hex, all that comes before the first time you see a
>whole bunch of "20"s) in the Bad clip.  The header data would
>still be off but you might be able to repair or convert it.  It might
>even let you view the whole thing.