7D 7D Footage "Bad Atom" Error PLEASE HELP!

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DavronM

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I am having a huge emergency error. I just finished a long shoot that positively can not be redone. I imported my clips. Half of them went right in normally and half of them give me an error that says;

"Error -2002: A bad public movie atom was found in the movie."

The clip will not play in QT or VLC nor will it open in any editing software. If I go back into the 7D and check out the clip it says "Cannot Playback Movie".

This is a big disaster for me as I will be out a lot of money if this footage can not be recovered. If the file size is there as 756mb there MUST be footage in there. I can not just assume it is corrupt and I am screwed. Please, someone help me. I will be eternally grateful.
 
Uh... what kind of card did you use to record on? (I'm afraid you're gonna say some cheap brand)
 
Also first off did you try copying your files first to a drive then importing? (you should not be importing straight off the card.

Second try googling for the answer but so far it looks like some kind of corruption error.

Try copying the file off and trouble shooting with that if you have not done so.


Were you ever able to play this file back off the camera at all before importing? Did you have any other clips like this?

Some forum says a solution which I don't believe will work but this is what they said " Try zipping up the file then unzipping it. Then try opening it." Hey... wasn't my suggestion. Bottom line is try to make copies of the file before you try different solutions with it.

Bottom line is that you should not be doing anything straight off the card itself. I have a feeling you might have.
 
This is providing you've tried all other solutions:

If it's just your headers (or "movie atom" as Quicktime calls it) that are corrupted there may be a glimmer of hope. Are you running Windows at all? If so, you can use Avisynth to read the raw video data - have a look on this page here: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Importing_media (scroll down to the RawSource entry). You may have to provide information such as frame size and colour space manually, but you might be able to get some results out of it. I remember I used it years ago to recover a corrupt HDV clip, but there are no guarantees it will work.


Another solution might be to re-wrap your video and audio into another header using ffmpeg, but this may be dubious as I believe VLC uses that library (and you've already said it won't recognise the clips).


If you want, upload one of the corrupted clips somewhere (choose the smallest one!) along with the frame rate and resolution you used, post/pm a link and I'll see if I can do anything with it. If I have any success, I'll post the steps taken.


Cheers!
 
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