HELP (avi max file size??)

shull wrote on 10/29/2002, 9:19 AM

I'm a total newbie to Vegas Video, so this is probably a simple problem that I can't find the answer to in my documentation. Everytime I try to render a project to an uncompressed avi format, the avi file splits at around 4GB (3.98GB to be exact) and renders the rest to another file. Do I have some parameter set? I this known behavior?

I'm sure it's something dumb, but please help!!

thanks

scott

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Sr_C wrote on 10/29/2002, 9:32 AM

I am assuming that you are using Windows 98se, which has a 4GB file size limit due to the FAT32 file system it uses. The only way around this is to upgrade to 2000 or XP and format your drives to NTFS. If you are already using XP then all you need to do is convert your drive to NTFS, which has no file size limit. If these options are not possible then render your project using the DV template, the quality will still be good. DV files are not as big as uncompressed so depending on how long your project is you might be able to keep it under 4GB. -Shon

shull wrote on 10/29/2002, 9:44 AM

wow, never encountered this before. I'm on XP, but i did config the drive as FAT32. I will fix it. thanks a million

scott

riredale wrote on 10/29/2002, 2:53 PM

Unless there is some obvious reason to deal with uncompressed video, I would suggest sticking to the DV format completely. The quality is identical to raw video unless you know where to look, and the files are much more manageable. Even so, you will be eating up 1GB of disk for each 4:30 or so.