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2 GB limit with network drive capture
I used alldrives in the command window to enable capturing to drives on remote machines. But every 11 minutes, the capture would stop. I looked at the files and realized they are being punished with a 2 GB limit. These are NTFS volumes and have no such limit. Is there something else I need to do to tell Media Composer not to enforce that limit?
Simple Gigabit Ethernet… non-special drive… just a 750 GB non-RAID drive on a remote machine. 1080i HDV footage capturing in XMF format.
I capture over the network with Avid Liquid for hours with no trouble.
Is there something else I need to do to tell MC these drives aren’t FAT?
Thanks,
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Mark C. Lowe
DarkAge Video
https://www.DarkAgeVideo.com
“Believe You Are There!”sm
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I’ve been using Avid systems for a while now. The media files themselves are always around a 2gb size…the capture shouldn’t stop, it just continues to create additional 2gb media files.
You might check your “media creation” settings since you can limit captures to time and file size if I remember correctly. The default capture time is somewhere around 30 mins I think…First time I ran across that I was trying to capture an hour long event and the capture would always stop in the same place…no error…nothing. I’d recapture it again and same thing…took me a while to discover that the capture limit was set.
Erik
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DOH! Something always bites me in the ass when I forget to mention it. I fixed that a long time ago because that kept me from logging long tapes on the LOCAL machine too, so it’s not that. I have that set for 2 hours, I think.
Local logging is just fine. This issue is specific to network drives.
Also, I have MXF log files on the local machine as big as 12 GB so I have never seen any such limit before.
Peace,
M——-
Mark C. Lowe
DarkAge Video
https://www.DarkAgeVideo.com
“Believe You Are There!”sm
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There is also a box to check in the media creation setting that says ‘allow capture of files larger than 2gb’, or something like that.
Jon
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As mentioned above, the issue is not that ALL files are limited to 2GB, as local capture does not have this limit. It is only with network drives. I have captured locally in excess of TWELVE (12) GB.
And I found no checkbox in Media Creation that says anything about 2GB.
Peace,
M
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