Can't Render as QuickTime!

RubyTuesday wrote on 9/12/2005, 11:39 AM

I'm getting an error message when I try to render my 95 minute film as a QuickTime .mov. It seems to be rendering for about a third of the movie then it stops (with nothing ending up being rendered) and the message says "Make sure you have write access to the file/folder and that there is enough free space." I've got 90 gigs free, which should be enough and I've rendered the movie as .avi and .mpeg2 with no probem. Is the problem the "write access to the file/folder" and what do I do for that? Thank you.

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seanfl wrote on 9/12/2005, 1:02 PM

is it possible your drive is not formatted as NTFS?

click my computer, then right click on the drive. then look under properties. File system. Should be listed as NTFS.

if so, maybe someone else can comment if there's a 4 gig limit to NTFS or what the holdup could be. Sean

RubyTuesday wrote on 9/12/2005, 2:15 PM

It's NTFS. I'm thinking it could be a problem with my QuickTime settings.

MarkWWW wrote on 9/13/2005, 3:24 AM

I suspect it is telling you the truth - you are running out of disk space.

You don't say which codec you have chosen to use for the QuickTime .mov render which leads me to think that you may have just used the default template which for the version of QT I have installed (6.5.1) uses a video codec called "none" i.e. uncompressed video which will be huge. I've just done a quick test and for a 2.5 minute file I ended up with a 6.5GB .mov file, so for your 95 minute file I would expect you would end up with about a 250GB .mov file if you are using the default template, so failing at about one third complete with an error message about running out of disk space is just what you would expect if you have 90GB of space on the drive. (In fact it's even worse than that since QT actually seems to render a temporary working file before it createss the final .mov so it actually needs twice the amount of free space, but you are hitting the error long before you get to that problem.)

If I'm correct, the solution is easy - just choose one of the QT templates other than the default. These all use the Sorensen 3 codec which is what you probably want to use for a .mov - just select the bitrate appropriate to your target audience. Then you should find that the rendered file will be of a sensible size and will complete without error.

Alternatively, if none of the supplied templates are what you require for your purposes, create a custom render template using a suitable codec (under "video format" on the Video tab) for the purpose you have in mind - just don't use the "none" or uncompressed option if you want a small file size.

Mark