Retrieving movie

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
A few operating systems ago I made a cdr of a video with the intention of being able to burn it to a disc. I’m now using OS 10.11.6 and I cannot do anything at all with the cdr. This may sound gobbly-gook but I’m tired, I’m frustrated and be blowed if I know how to retrieve media that I created

Re: Retrieving movie

2016-10-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Michael, How did you create the.cdr? .cdr is an uncompressed disk image, like ISO. Do you see any movie file on the CD-R? If so, what is the name of the file, and what is the extension of that file name. Some examples are .mov, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg-4, .wmv, .mkv, .flv? Can you Double-click the

Re: Retrieving movie

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
Thanks Ronni, cdr was an Apple thing used to create a video that would play on a variety of machines. I think Daniel may have written about it at some time. Just now I cannot remember exactly how it was done - the current OS and screens are too different to jog my memory. Cheers, Michael >

Re: Retrieving movie

2016-10-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Michael, A lot of online hints about opening .cdr files are actually referring to CorelDRAW files (which also used the .cdr extension) - so don't get confused by these. As Ronni has already said, YOUR .cdr file is a type of disk image - so first you need to open it and mount the disk. Again,

Re: Retrieving movie

2016-10-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Michael, Assuming that, for some reason, double-clicking the file isn't working - I forgot possibly the easiest method of opening the .cdr file: € Right click on the file and use the "open With" option to select the DiskImageMounter (default) - which should be the first option. Cheers