Error Message When Rendering

goshep wrote on 12/31/2005, 2:44 PM
This is a new one on me. Was messing around with layered generated media (trying to simulate the warp to lightspeed effect in Star Wars). When I attempted to render I got an error message. I don't know at what point the error occured as I had stepped away during render (you can imagine the render time for mulpitle layers of effects).
When I came back to the computer I clicked [OK] thinking it was a routine [OK] when in fact it was an error message soooo....I'm not certain EXACTLY what it said but it was to the effect of:
"The file size has been exceeded for the project type selected."

Settings were uncompressed .AVI, progressive, best quality. There is planty of disk space and I'm running a gig of DDR dual channel memory on a Pentium 3.2 processor with HT enabled. Anyone ever seen this error...or something like it?
The strange thing is, I went into the render folder and found the rendered file. It appears normal but I can't be sure because with generated media it's tough to say what is normal.

Comments

farss wrote on 12/31/2005, 4:04 PM
Just a guess,
turkeys can't fly, so....

But seriously, some file types are limited to 2GB, maybe it's related to that?
If the render isn't too long you could try running it again.

Bob.
johnmeyer wrote on 12/31/2005, 4:16 PM
Were you rendering to a FAT32 drive? This is similar to what Bob was getting at.
goshep wrote on 12/31/2005, 8:28 PM
GOBBLE GOBBLE AAAACCCKK SPLAT!

No fat32 here. The only thing different about this render is I unchecked the box in the video tab for "Create an open DML compatible AVI file." (This was suggested long ago as a remedy for the codec problem between Vegas and Alamdv2.)

Everything else was business as usual. Now that you mention it, the file rendered out to 1.99 gigs. Hmmmmm.