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Can’t render movie – file too large
I finished editing my movie. I took a 1.5 GB MOV file and cut out about 180 extraneous spoken words. It is about 60 minutes in length.
Now I am trying to render a single file that I can put in Flash to put on the web.
But when I try to render I get the following message:
An error occurred while creating the midia file … An Error occurred writing the file. make sure you have access to the file/folder and that there is enough free space.
I notice that it tried to write a tmp file that was HUGE (like 4 GB on one drive and then 52GB on another drive that I tried) before it crapped out.
Can anyone suggest the best way to get a flat file out of this that I can take over into Flash?
Many thanks!
Steve in Alaska
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6 Replies
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What file format are you encoding into? Try one that is compressed such as avi dv or mpg-2. Both of these should be readable by the Flash converter.
j razz
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Ahh. I had tried AVI uncompressed Default Template and MOV Default Template. I should try the AVI with the NTSC DV template?
And then I tried to TOOLS/RENDER TO NEW TRACK. That gave me gave me 3 files of about 3.99 GB each on my hard drive but only put the first one in my Project Media bin and on the new track. Maybe I didn’t do it correctly? (I’d like to know how to do that properly.)
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Ah, the 3.99 GB file is a clue. Sounds like your hard drive is FAT32. It should be reformatted to NTFC.
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Ah, I see that you are correct. It IS FAT32. (Eyes roll)
It’s a P4 3.066GHz CPU Win XP PRO SP2, 1.5 GB RAM, 60 GB HD. 3 years old. I wonder what would be involved to get it reformatted? Would I probably have to take it to a service shop?
I’m still new at this video editing and learning what is really needed for proper hardware and software configuration.
I have another external drive that is a 500 GB Seagate USB drive that is NTFS formatted. I had been using this for my video and photo files, but lately it is temperamental and will periodically lose connection with the main computer. Then I have to unplug and reboot to get the connection back. And that is bad to get interrupted in the middle of a large file operation. I’m not sure what is causing it. Maybe I should take it to a service shop as well?
Sorry to be such a newbie. Many thanks for all your help and tips!
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Actually, rather than a reformat you can do a conversion:
To convert:
“Open Command Prompt, and at the command prompt, type convert C: /FS:NTFS, where C represents the drive letter of the disk to convert. Press Enter or Return on the keyboard”
I believe that doing this would keep you from losing all the information on the drive where a reformat is a killer. BUT I’m not sure. Maybe someone more techhie can speak up. -
Thank you! Someone else also gave me this https://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097/EN-US/ and I tried it and it worked!
Many thanks!
Steve
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