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Can’t copy 12Gb QT mov
I’ve rendered a 12Gb QuickTime movie (animation codec) from AE 6.5 PB on a G5 w/ OSX and have tried everything to get it off that computer, but nothing works. Everything else about the file is normal…it plays fine in the QT player, I’ve imported it into Final Cut Pro and mastered to Beta SP, imported into DVD Studio Pro and authored DVDs, etc. I’ve tried copying it to several external drives (1394 & USB), saving it directly to those drives, copying it over an adequate network, WinZIP, StuffIt, WinRAR, even re-rendering directly to an external drive. It gets halfway through the copy and gives an error message about some data not being either readable or writable (forgot which). The only thing I can think of that might be different about this file is that I rendered with the AE option of “embed project link & copy”…I do that all the time, but not sure I’ve done it with a file this big. I’d re-render without the “link & copy”, but it’s a 12-hour render so I’d like to exhaust other options first…any ideas?
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4 Replies
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I’d think this is a mere filesystem problem. Most external devices use different cluster sizes and different file systems and protect certain areas from being used for data (they store some meta data and error correction codes in there) which makes it difficult to copy large files to them. I think unless you split up the file there is little chance of success. more specifically I think your file is causing a premature EOF on the mobile device since it cannot allocate clusters properly.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Thanks for the info. That doesn’t explain why I can’t copy it over the network or ZIP/RAR/Stuff it into a file since there’s no external device involved in those attempts. I guess I’ll have to try it, but it seems that I’d lose the AE “project copy” embedded in the file if I split the file…not a huge deal, but that’s how I usually archive my projects and haven’t had this problem before.
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Why don’t you try splitting by trimming in QT pro and saving as a new file? Then see if the link still works … it should, since you’re just trimming and “saving as”.
Steve
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Thanks, I’ll try it.
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