Can't open .MP4

Hi All-

I received some footage shot in Korea on an unknown camera. The file extension is .MP4
I can only open it with VLC player. Tried Quicktime Player, MPEG Streamclip, Compressor, Log and Transfer to no avail. Is there a suggestion as to how to find out what the camera might be and or how to open and ingest the files into FCP??

The Quicktime error reads;
The operation couldn?t be completed. (OSStatus error -12909.)

FCP 7.0.3
OSX 10.6.8

Thanks!

Troy

Bring it into Sony's XDCAM Transfer utility. It could be an XDCAM EX clip.



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Strypes - downloaded it and it is working. Many thanks!!!

Fire the DP data wrangler for destroying the metadata.

What they did is like ripping out the tape from a Betacam or DV cassette and sending you the tape expecting it to play in a deck.

Sometimes you don't have control over these things. First time I got a similar clip as the OP, I was trying to find a high quality FFMPEG based decoder, then I remembered that XDCAM EX used an Mpeg 2 codec in an Mpeg4 wrapper and XDCAM Transfer got it working.



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