Import file size limit in Platinum 9?

Pikky wrote on 10/1/2011, 3:05 PM
After 24-pulldown (rendered to DNxHD) on some video clips I took with my Canon Vixia HV20, I can normally drag the clips directly into the Vegas timeline.
But when the clips are over around 500 megabytes, the program will give the message "None of the files dropped on vegas movie studio platinum could be opened."
Most of the clips I convert to 24fps are small and I don't have this problem, but occasionally I get a few clips that go over this limit and I'm unable to do anything with them.
I might be able to cut the clips into smaller parts pre-conversion to true-24fps video, but is this the only way? I'd like to get Vegas to simply work with my larger files.
Any solutions? Thanks a ton for your help.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/1/2011, 6:34 PM
Well, a lot depends on how your project is set up and how powerful and well-set-up your computer system is.

I don't know that the program itself has a file limit, per se. But, at least with Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 (or even version 9, since you're editing tape-based), if you've got your project set up to interface with that camcorder's HDV files, and those files are standard HDV video captured over FireWire by Vegas, you shouldn't have any problems working with files several gigabytes in size.

Maybe it's the "24-pulldown (rendered to DNxHD)" that's giving the program so much grief. Is there any reason you're not working with straight HDV video? That camcorder and this program should be a marriage made in heaven!
Eugenia wrote on 10/1/2011, 7:16 PM
Please install the Platinum 11 TRIAL version and see if this works with your big files. The trial won't overwrite your v9. If it works, upgrade to v11. Also, make sure your filesystem is NTFS. If your OS uses FAT32 you will have problems with large files.

>Is there any reason you're not working with straight HDV video?

Yes. HV20's 24p is not true 24p, it's PF24. If you edit it as is, either as 60i or 24p and without pulldown-removal, then you will get extreme ghosting making the video useless.