4GB limit when rendering?

Sr_C wrote on 7/20/2002, 12:41 PM

A friend of mine who just started using Vegas is running into a problem when rendering. It reaches 4GB and stops. I have not had this problem. Is there a setting somewhere for rendering limits? I know you can limit file size when capturing but I have not seen anything like that for renders.

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vonhosen wrote on 7/20/2002, 12:54 PM

I assume your friend's hard drive is formatted FAT32 which has 4Gb file limits. If you have NTSC format the file limits are far larger than current hard drives. For NTSC you are going to need Windows 2000 or XP.

Jessariah67 wrote on 7/20/2002, 1:03 PM

I'm on 98SE and I recently rendered an hour-long project with no problem. It's not on my system any longer, but it was .avi -- so it had to be way larger than 4G (probably closer to 12).

HPV wrote on 7/20/2002, 1:31 PM

Vegas on render and Vidcap on capture auto split avi files at 4 gigs on Win98SE and ME. Have ME here, works fine (except the few extra samples of audio).
Sounds like he needs to do an MS Direct X update. 8.0a was a two part download. 8.1 is one. He can download from the Vegas download area on this site. Might need to go to MS for 8.1.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.asp

Craig H.

vonhosen wrote on 7/20/2002, 3:20 PM

I had assumed rightly or wrongly when you had said they were having problems rendering past 4Gb that perhaps they were rendering MPEG file etc. I understand that Vegas will get around the limit with .avi files but I didn't think it could with other files. I wouldn't know for sure as I work on NTSC.

drdespair wrote on 7/20/2002, 4:54 PM

If your friend is rendering back to AVI make shure that the OpenDML option is checked on the Video tab in Options of Render As...

Hope that helps, other then that.. work in scenes then put everything in the time line, and smack to tape.

D.