QuickTime problem

roger_74 wrote on 5/12/2003, 3:28 AM

This problem came up when a beta tester of Batchrender Pro tried to render QuickTime files with long filenames.

I realize this isn't necessarily the right forum, since the problem seems to be within Vegas itself, but the signal to noise ratio is better here than in the video forum. ;-)

By the way, is there an email address for bug reports?

Anyway, it seems Vegas (or the QuickTime component) can't render QuickTime files with filenames longer than 55 characters. 55 characters may sound like alot, but if you include the file format and render template name in the filename it gets quite big.

In some cases Real Media files also seem to have problems, but I haven't been able to verify that.

Comments

SonyPJM wrote on 5/12/2003, 9:30 AM

Maybe 55 characters is the file name limit on the Mac... those type of
things things have been known to carry over in Quicktime. If this is
the case, you could argue that it is a good thing Quicktime enforces
the least common denominator.

As a side note, no path string can be longer than 260 characters
(MAX_PATH) and Vegas' scripting API should throw an exception when a
longer path string is passed in.

roger_74 wrote on 5/12/2003, 9:54 AM

Hmm... I'll just have to code around it then. But I would suggest that Vegas at least tells the user about this, since Vegas starts rendering but aborts with no error message both in scripting and "direct" use.