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windows 2 GB file limit? still????
I recently digitized some digibeta footage as DV files using Decklink Extreme for a client using premiere and the files that were larger than 2 GB would not open on his Windows XP system. We’re mac osx / FCP here and I guess this is the first time we’ve done this for a client using windows. We’ve never had this problem with Mac clients. I thought the 2 GB file size limit was a thing of the distant past and obslolete OSes. Am I going to have to break up his files in the future or is there some way around this? also his firewire drive he brought to us mounted as NTFS filesystem and I was not able to write to it. I reformatted it as DOS using a mac here with Tiger which let us do that – but I could not write the 2GB+ files to it. I had to burn those to DVD-R! (they appeared as “1.9GB” files on his PC even though they were much bigger…..
thanks for any help – I’m really not too windows literate. -
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Dos formating limits to 2GB. You should format to mac drive, and he must use some mac disc reading software on a PC.
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DOS format has two modes: FAT 16 and FAT 32.
There are to old… but are still good for smalls capacities and are coss platform mac/PC.
The problem (which is important…) FAT16 can’t do files bigger than 2Gb and Fat32 not more than 4GB.
When directshow was created by microsoft (win98) it was possible to pass this stupid limit of 2GB (but everybody has taken a long time to adopt it…).
So for resume if you want to work with file bigger than 2GB you must use ntfs file system…
MACOS X can’t write on ntfs drive (i don’t know for tiger) but can read it.
iso dvd can’t write file bigger than 2gb
udf dvd can make file bigger than 2gb
FAT16 no more than 2GB per file
FAT32 no more than 4GB per file
NTFS more than the tera… if you want
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