File Convert gone wrong

[Madbox]

Hey guys

I need some help, and i know that here is the help to get ! ;)


I used Acdsee to do some picture converting png -to- jpeg.
I accidentaly converted some *.mov movies in the process so that they also are jpg format..

Now is there any way of getting those files back to being a movie?


i've tried the simple renaming , but doesnt work...

help help help :(

[Ghitulescu]

Well, if you insist, you can create a movie with Avisynth, but this movie will consist only in one frame. :p

No, you can't make a movie out of a frame. :scared:

Try to recover the movies (undelete, recovery software), use "undo" etc.

[von_Runkel]

ffmpeg can do this for you

http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14

For example, if you want to recombine the images to a Quicktime movie (in this case with the animation codec):

ffmpeg -f image2 -i source%5d.jpg -vcodec qtrle destination.mov

You can get a Windows version here: http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/

[Madbox]

thanks for some input, but i dont think it will help this situation..


all i have is a *.jpg image, which i can open in a viewer to show me the first frame of the movie it once was, ( in *.mov)

So i guess its not possible to restore all the other frames in the file as they may have been lost in the convert?

[Ghitulescu]

see the second post, NO

[iffybob]

You dont say what the file size of the jpegs are or how long the original movs were, the chances are that it converted just the first frame of the mov to a jpeg and not an animated jpeg, if it is just a jpeg (with only one frame/image in the file ), the other data is lost, unless you had it "Backed up", or you can recover the "original" file.

Good practice is to work on copies of a file , an check your work before deleting the original.

[setarip_old]

@Madbox

Hi!

I'm personally not too familiar with "ACDSee" - but many such programs typically save a backup copy if the original file being converted.

Have you done a "Search" of your hard drive to see if a file with the original name (with, perhaps, a different ".xxx" extender) is still in existence?