Tools or Techniques to repair a corrupt QT movie? at DVinfo.net

John McManimie · August 25th, 2006, 02:01 PM

Anybody know of any tools (for the PC) that can repair corrupt QuickTime movies? There are tools available for AVI files but I have found none for QuickTime.

The file is a ~60GB 480/24P movie using the Blackmagic 8 bit (2 VUY) codec (version 4.9). It was originally created using on a system with QT v6.5 and was output from Premiere Pro v1.5.1. It played fine last week (and I was able to extract portions of it for further filtering). However, it has suddenly become unplayable. The hard drive shows no corruption and other QuickTime movies play fine. I also tried copying it to a new hard drive.

I have tried QuickTime v 6.5, v7x, QuickTime alternative, Premiere Pro, and Procoder. I get the error: "failed to render the file" from QuickTime.

I can re-render the file but I really would like to avoid it (long render with filters). I have used this format for a long time and never had problems.

Any ideas?

Christopher Lefchik · August 25th, 2006, 02:58 PM

Try VLC media player. It might offer to repair the file. It did for me on one or two AVI files.

John McManimie · August 26th, 2006, 01:38 PM

I tried VLC and it doesn't give an error but it just moves the timeline along while nothing gets displayed. It looks like the file is bad. Oh well.

Thanks.

August 25th, 2006, 02:01 PM	#1
John McManimie Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 314	Tools or Techniques to repair a corrupt QT movie? Anybody know of any tools (for the PC) that can repair corrupt QuickTime movies? There are tools available for AVI files but I have found none for QuickTime. The file is a ~60GB 480/24P movie using the Blackmagic 8 bit (2 VUY) codec (version 4.9). It was originally created using on a system with QT v6.5 and was output from Premiere Pro v1.5.1. It played fine last week (and I was able to extract portions of it for further filtering). However, it has suddenly become unplayable. The hard drive shows no corruption and other QuickTime movies play fine. I also tried copying it to a new hard drive. I have tried QuickTime v 6.5, v7x, QuickTime alternative, Premiere Pro, and Procoder. I get the error: "failed to render the file" from QuickTime. I can re-render the file but I really would like to avoid it (long render with filters). I have used this format for a long time and never had problems. Any ideas?

August 25th, 2006, 02:58 PM	#2
Christopher Lefchik Trustee Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: US Posts: 1,152	Try VLC media player. It might offer to repair the file. It did for me on one or two AVI files. Last edited by Christopher Lefchik; August 25th, 2006 at 07:15 PM.

August 26th, 2006, 01:38 PM	#3
John McManimie Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 314	I tried VLC and it doesn't give an error but it just moves the timeline along while nothing gets displayed. It looks like the file is bad. Oh well. Thanks.