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Hey guys,

I was on a shoot yesterday testing the Pocket 6k, and for whatever reason, when transferring the data this morning, the second memory card was corrupted and needed to be formatted to be connected to the PC. Even when I put the card back in the 6k and the 4k, both cameras asked for the card to be formatted to use. Reluctantly, I formatted the card, knowing I could recover the footage.

Using Recuvva, I have since recovered the footage. However, all of the files have been recovered as .MOV files. But here's the kicker, when playing the .MOV file on VLC it says "VLC could not decode the format "brhq" and if I open the file via the Blackmagic RAW player, my beautiful footage is alive and well. However, everything, including Resolve, is viewing these files as a .MOV file with no video.

The RAW player can see the content, but nothing else can. How can I get these files back to the BRAW format?

Try to simply rename them.

Still nothing. Resolve only see's the audiowave levels, no video.

Alright, I've done it. Pretty much thanks to Uli's comment but windows had changed the way the file extension renaming works.

Thank god for that! Cheers.

Hey there so I'm having the same problem what exactly did you do?

just give it a different name and it will work

I need to rely this with the Tentacle Sync program as well. After it adds the timecode to the file it renames them .mov as well.

Are you using Tentacle Sync Studio to convert timecode on an audio track to proper timecode metadata?

In case you're not aware, Resolve can read the timecode without any conversion and you don't need the Tentacle Sync Studio app (unless you're doing something else with it). On the Media page, right click the clips and select "Update Timecode from Audio Track".

Roger,

My bad, I wasn't clear. It works absolutely perfectly on the BMPCC 6K cameras that I use. I also paired them with an Sony FX3 and A7sIII camera for my last shoot and I could not seem to get the timecode to work on those cameras. I ran the Sony cameras through the Tentacle Sync program and it embedded the timecode but also gave me a .mov container at the end of the process. Quality did not appear to suffer as I selected pass-thru video but it was an extra step that had me worried.

I did not try what you suggested however. I will look at that tomorrow and see if it also works with the Sony cameras.