Help! Damaged Footage Woes

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So I have some footage.
It's 28 minutes and 31 seconds long. It was saved as a .mov file by my camera.

I've opened this footage before and watched it through. I've used it in a video previously. I know that I was able to see it before.

Now, however, I have problems.

If I'm watching it back it gets stuck at 1:45. The frame freezes but the timer carries on.
If I start the video from the beginning and skip ahead to anything after 1:45, it'll freeze on the current frame but the timer will carry on still.

Anyone any clue? It's not corrupted (or at least not completely, as I can open it and watch the first 1:45 of the video back) as far as I can tell.
My editing program (Adobe Premiere Pro CS6) throws a fit when I place the footage in. It tries to "Conform" it like it does with all footage, but gets stuck near the start. I'm going to assume this is when it hits the 1:45 mark. I use VLC player for all my video file stuff and it can't seem to correct it either.

I've just tried rendering the footage in Premiere Pro and it caused the whole thing to crash.

I could really do with this footage being fixed. It's quite important to me.

Any help appreciated!
 
Before you do anything, make a copy of it and try it on a different computer. Then you try the basics like converting it to different formats. I have had this problem before, but I re-installed K-Lite Codec pack and that resolved it.
 
You could maybe try opening it in Windows Movie Maker, I know it's a terrible thought ;)

Never know, it might just work with it, even if you can just open it and then just render it straight out...

Really not sure about anything else mate :?
 
Firstly, thank you all for your super quick replies!

CurlyBlakey said:
Burn it and blame the Pagans.
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I've already done this several times today. My family is starting to get annoyed with all the smoke.

gpzDave said:
You could maybe try opening it in Windows Movie Maker, I know it's a terrible thought ;)
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I'm afraid my computer didn't come with it, and I'd prefer to stay away from all that Windows Live stuff for the sake of my own sanity.
Thanks for the suggestion though :)

OoxTruExoO said:
Before you do anything, make a copy of it and try it on a different computer. Then you try the basics like converting it to different formats. I have had this problem before, but I re-installed K-Lite Codec pack and that resolved it.
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I don't have any other computers handy :(
The first thing that came to my head was to change the filetype, but all the programs I've used in the past have been pretty dodgy. Do you know of a good converter? :)
 
I had that problem on a disk, but obviously your memory card is not scratch...

I would suggest making copy, then deleting the file (or just cut the damage file and paste it in a different place/disk) and then get a recovery software and try restoring the file from the sd card.

Or:
is your computer old? it may need a format... and more RAM :)
 
Have you tried downloading a trial version of another editing software? Might be worth a shot.

Or Google free video file converter.

Or throw everything in acid and adopt a small family of sloths.
 
Never encounter this issue. you may copy it and play on another computer to check if the issue solved.
Or like other guys said, convert the mov files to another common format like mp4, avi, etc.
I found this on my own
source: Convert mov to mp4 on Mac and Windows
and it seems to work.
 
Great suggestions here. I'm going to try converting it when I get home. Right after I've adopted a family of sloths.

BKarolX said:
I had that problem on a disk, but obviously your memory card is not scratch...

I would suggest making copy, then deleting the file (or just cut the damage file and paste it in a different place/disk) and then get a recovery software and try restoring the file from the sd card.

Or:
is your computer old? it may need a format... and more RAM :)
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Computer is brand new with some top quality tech installed.
I think it's happened due to copying and pasting my file too many times.
It started out on my SD card, was moved to a portable HDD in Italy, moved to my HDD when I was home (where I last looked at it), moved to another (temperamental) portable HDD while I built my new PC, moved to one of the HDD's on that new PC and finally moved over to an old but freshly formatted HDD that's also in my PC just for videos.
 
Or if you can upload it to a public place, like a skydrive, or your own webspace or something, I can take a look at it for you. But, might not get around to it until Bank Holiday Monday.
 
OoxTruExoO said:
Not sure how long this offer applies, but this seems to be a good one. http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/softwar ... easter.htm Plus it's currently free. That's a saving of... monies!

Or you could cheat, and try uploading it to Vimeo, seeing whether they can convert it and then download the converted file :)
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Tried uploading it but it's 2GB so I'm going to have to do it overnight.
That program is really good and I'm glad you've recommended it and I've got it now (especially because it's free) but it didn't fix the issue when I converted to WMV. Trying AVI now, and if that doesn't work I'll give up converting.

senthx said:
If you can make sense of my ramblings, I might have the solution in this old thread of mine, where I recovered a piece of damaged footage following an off road crash.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2109&p=20981&hilit=footage#p20981
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Just downloaded that program that you said worked for you. I'm going to try this next.

Again, thanks very much for the help chaps.
 
okay, good luck, but read my ramblings carefully, I had to use a hex editor and switch stuff about to recover the whole footage
 
senthx said:
okay, good luck, but read my ramblings carefully, I had to use a hex editor and switch stuff about to recover the whole footage
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That program that you had success with only gives me the first 50 seconds of footage in the "fixed" video, and the framerate is drastically slowed.
I'm putting in that clip as the broken one and adding another as the reference clip like the instructions say but it's not working.

Wondering if it's to do with the file being broken beyond repair.
 
No probs mate, I know how much it sucks to lose footage. (I used to own a Drift)

Hope you find a fix for it. Did you try the Vimeo suggestion?
 
Only thing i can think of doing that hasnt been suggested is runnign a check disk on the card and see if the error repair actually spots anything and fixes. sadly one of the downsides of removable storage!
 
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