How to Repair After Effects Damaged or Unsupported Error File?

Your bundle of joy taking her first baby steps is one of the most precious moments for any parent. And compiling all such special moments into one and present it on her 16th birthday, makes it even more special for you and to your child. Once video is done and giving it a final check, you notice that it’s unplayable and throwing an error saying “After Effects error - your MOV file cannot be imported”. What was supposed to be a special gift is now damaged and the feeling itself is distressing.

Speaking about After Effects – it is an Adobe motion graphic creating software. It is used for composing, keying and tracking graphics in the process of film making. But working with ‘After Effects’ doesn’t go smooth always. Due to some unexpected errors or glitches, it can give you a hard time.

There are several errors that crop up while working with After Effects, such as sometimes the software refuse to import the MOV file that you were working on, or it could happen that it is unable to read a particular frame. Whatever may be the errors, remedies always starts by digging the probable cause.

Some of the reasons for above mentioned After Effects errors might be:

  • Quick Time failure due to clash with audio drivers
  • Quick Time failure due to its incapability to work with big amount of processes
  • Preferences corruption or permission issue with the file or folder, in which file is located

After Effect works with the integration of Quick Time, so if anything goes wrong with either QuickTime or video file directly affects your After Effects project. If you are using other media player and your MOV files cannot be imported or unsupported, thankfully no need to worry and you don’t have to be an IT expert to resolve these problem. Yodot MOV Repair bring in complete solution to fix corrupted or damaged MOV & MP4 file.

Supreme features of the tool:

Yodot MOV Repair application can fix damaged or unsupported after effects error files on computer. It is associated with sophisticated scanning technique that examines damaged MOV file and fixes it by resolving all kind of issues. It can fix unplayable MOV videos stored in thumb drive, FireWire drive, portable hard drives, SSD, memory card, iPods and other storage devices without any trouble. This product offers trail version for verifying successful repair of MOV files before activating complete version. It is compatible on both Windows and Mac operating systems. Windows OS includes Windows 10, 8.x, 7, XP, Vista, Server 2008 and Server 2003. Whereas, Mac systems with Mac OS Leopard, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Lion, Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mac OS X Mavericks, Mac OS X Yosemite and Mac OS X El Capitan can run this product flawlessly.

Note: Yodot facilitates different products to fix importing error with 2007 PPT file, Word file, Outlook PST file and other file types effectively.

Please find below step by step instructions on how to work with Yodot MOV Repair:

  • Download free trial version or paid version of Yodot software on your computer
  • Once the software is open you find two icons - “Healthy File” and another “Corrupted File”
  • Click on “Healthy File” and choose a working MOV file - This will serve as a reference to repair the corrupted or damaged file
  • Ensure that the file you choose should be recorded from same Camcorder or camera because the software works on codec of healthy file as reference
  • Now, click on “Corrupted File” and select the file that you want to repair
  • Click on “Repair” option to initiate scanning process
  • When scanning is finished, you can preview the video to check if the repair is successful
  • You can click on “Save” button and choose your desired location to save the repaired video file

Valuable Tips:

  • Backup important MOV videos before editing or converting it
  • Avoid interruptions while moving MOV files from one device to another

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