Help! Recovered MXF files will not load

[pjlefe]

I was filming Elk at Rocky Mountain National Park and had captured an incredible, once in a lifetime event. I continued filming for another 30 minutes and the bull elk came at me and started bugling. I had one full P2 and the other was flashing 1 minute. So I quickly deleted 1 clip which I "knew" was a throwaway to buy me another couple of minutes.

What I found out later was that the clip I deleted was the incredible scene.

I ran a disk recovery program on the P2 Card which was able to identify deleted mxf files and restored them. That's the good news.

But when I try to run them through raylight it tells me it does not appear to be a valid movie file and then terminates.

It appears like I have the video file. It is close to 1GB which is about right for the scene. Is there any other option to try and recover this MXF file? I don't seem to have the audio file but the audio was terrible anyway and all I need is the video.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[THoff]

Given that the card was almost full, the sectors previously occupied by the file you want back likely would have been overwritten by things you recorded after that, so it is unlikely that you'll get the actual footage back.

Send me a PM with information on where I can download the MXF file in question, and I'll try to recover what is there. I have a proprietary program that might be able to do the job.