potentially stupid rendering question PLEASE HELP!

flyingmonk wrote on 7/31/2003, 6:57 PM

Hi,
I'm a VV newbie and am trying to render to .avi a movie made up of two video clips. When I render it, it always creates two .avi files (one for each clip). I'm sure that there is some property I haven't found that will make it render to one file but I've tried everything I can think of. What am I doing wrong?!?!?
Thanks!
Kevin

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Begbie wrote on 7/31/2003, 7:01 PM

I am a bit new too - select the video you want to render, (drag you cursor of the time lime to create a looped area) but when you do render as, make sure the only thing check in the 4 check boxes on the bottom left is render loop region.

hope i am right and i hope that helps.

snicholshms wrote on 8/1/2003, 12:00 AM

Are the two clips on the same timeline? Do they overlap to create a transition between the clips?

jetdv wrote on 8/1/2003, 8:50 AM

Also, what is your OS and drive format? How big are the files? (i.e. are you reaching the 4GB limit of FAT32?)

flyingmonk wrote on 8/1/2003, 9:11 AM

The clips came off of a DV tape. I don't know why it broke it into two pieces but it could be the 4 Gb limit as one is just under 4. They're on the same track but don't overlap (as they should run continuously) but are butted up to each other. Each clip then renders into an individual .avi file. Of course I want one big file. I'm using Win98se, PIII700, 512 ram. I've only done one video project before, a year ago and it was much bigger and I didn't have this problem. If it is a 4 Gb issue, what's the workaround?
Thanks,
Kevin

jetdv wrote on 8/1/2003, 9:15 AM

If it is a 4 Gb issue, what's the workaround?

Buy Win2K or WinXP and change the format of the drive to NTFS. Win98SE will never use a file larger than 4GB. It's an OS limitation NOT a Vegas limitation.