Will VMS9 break large files when rendering?

Kalvos wrote on 12/2/2008, 9:32 AM

Hi,

This is a stupid time to ask, but I'm midway through rendering a large video.

It looks like it will exceed 4GB, and I'm running a FAT32 system.

Will VMS automatically break the render into pieces, or am about to have a very nasty crash?

Thanks,
Dennis

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ritsmer wrote on 12/2/2008, 10:14 AM

VMS will not break up the output file.
It will (probably) just give some error message and then stop rendering.
Remember, however, that it is very easy - and 99,9% risk free - :-) - to convert to NTFS using Windows own tools for that.

Kalvos wrote on 12/2/2008, 10:46 AM

Thanks for the warning and the recommendation.

I might convert to NTFS on that one drive (there are 9 drives on this machine). I'm a fanatic about being able to recover damaged material (including piecing together lost files from bits & pieces), and my recovery experience is exclusively with FAT16 and FAT32 formats.

Thanks again,
Dennis

Chienworks wrote on 12/2/2008, 12:07 PM

Actually it will break up the file if rendering to DV or uncompressed AVI.

Rendering to MPEG can cause some major headaches. Vegas keeps updating the file size in the directory, but the OS runs out of places to store the data. I ended up having to run scandisk on the drive afterwards to fix it when i attempted rendering a 6GB MPEG file to a FAT32 drive.

Kalvos wrote on 12/2/2008, 12:34 PM

Thanks much for the warning as well. I converted that drive to NTFS -- fast and indeed painless. It's halfway through rendering the MPEG2 now, so I trust all will be well.

Once more thanks to everyone on this fantastic forum ... I've never been misguided by advice here!

Dennis

HaveBlue wrote on 12/28/2008, 8:44 AM

NTFS is pretty hot swappable so long as you don't encrypt the drive.