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Export stops after 4.2 GB’s… why?
Hi,
I’m exporting a 2.5 hour video from Premier. Once the file size reaches 4.2GB’s, it stops exporting. I have 150GB’s left on the hard drive, so it’s not running out of space.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your time.
Jeremy
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5 Replies
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[jeremy] “Once the file size reaches 4.2GB’s, it stops exporting”
You need to tell people what kind of video you are exporting, also how the drive is formated, is it a external drive? If people know what you are doing and with what they maybe able to help, unfortunately the list owner wouldn’t hire a resident psychic to help with these questions -
Looks like you may have run into an OS file size limit. I am going to assume here that you are using a PC (but that is an assumption since you didn’t say). Tell me are you using FAT32 or even FAT32 on an XP installation?
From the MS support site:
“You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition”
While it says 1 byte less than 4 Gigs, that actually translates into: 2^32 = 4 294 967 296 — There you go — 4.2 Gigs.
You might want to read:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/
Mark Cain
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Mark,
Thanks for kindly taking the time to respond. You must have been the “psychic” that the smart mouth before you was talking about. Thanks for solving the problems and not just running your chops.
jeremy
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I’ve a couple of FAT32 drives (stuffed full of
archive media) which need converting to NTFS at
some point. Two reasons/caveats I keep putting
it off are:– There’s no quick return to FAT32 if it goes wrong.
– There’s a good chance that data will be corrupted
during conversion, so the lesson there is to empty
the thing of anything important before you start.Aside from that though, the tutorial I have seems
quite likeable and understandable.Good luck.
Darren.myspace.com/xgfmedia
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[jeremy] “You must have been the “psychic” that the smart mouth before you was talking about.”
You have nerve to call me a “Smart Mouth”, I didn’t call you LAZY, I could have, 1: Too lazy to do a internet search for the problem, probably would have turned up 1000+ answers, 2: Too lazy to do a forum search, the question has been asked countless times 3: Too lazy to add a bit of pertinent info to determine whether its a system or codec problem, so a more germane answer could be given vice a WAG.
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