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QucikTime Help! I lost the video/audio track after copying and pasting
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I wanted to combine 2 videos so I copied one and pasted it onto the other. It worked so I just closed it and when QT asked if I wanted to save or discard it I chose save. I didn't use Save As a new file because I thought they had the same effect. But after the I deleted the original clip 1, the joint video (clip 2) wouldn't play anymore. The movie properties show both the video and audio are unavailable despite clip 2 having the size of both videos combined.
Is there any way to salvage at least the original clip 2? I can understand the joint video may still be somehow linked to the original clip 1 but shouldn't clip 2 be fine?
Please help me out here, thanks a lot! 
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Is this QuickTime or iMovie? I didn't think you could do something like this with just QuickTime. With iMovie, you can't get rid of the original clip. You're just creating a file that references the pieces of the clip the way you want them. By deleting the source material, you got rid of the info about that clip.
You do have a Time Machine backup, right?
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Thanks for the reply, steve. I actually did use just QT to do that by selecting the entire playback and then copy and paste to another clip. It is weird that the entire video got corrupted because of one of the sources are deleted. I'm not sure I have a Time Machine backup or if I know how to use it but I check first. Thanks.
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OK It is actually much easier than I thought. I just deleted the part I pasted and the old clip 2 is back to normal.
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Originally Posted by zxhet 
Thanks for the reply, steve. I actually did use just QT to do that by selecting the entire playback and then copy and paste to another clip. It is weird that the entire video got corrupted because of one of the sources are deleted. I'm not sure I have a Time Machine backup or if I know how to use it but I check first. Thanks.
I'm glad you solved your problem, but this is quote is much more disturbing. Buy any external hard drive (preferably at least the size of your internal drive) and hook it up. Then enable Time Machine, in the System Preferences, for that drive. That's it. You should always be backing up so you'll never have situations like this to worry about.
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