• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  split-up files

  Posted by Liam Morgan on November 21, 2008 at 9:09 am

  hi,

  You know sometimes when you capture or export a long piece of video, the video file is split up into a bunch of files that are linked together? Such as; you have a video clip called “example.mov”, but what you end up with is more like this:

  example.mov
  example-av.mov1
  example-av.mov2
  example-av.mov3
  example-av.mov4

  I’ve just exported a 90 minute PAL DV film to QT file and it is segmented like this. Is there a way I can get it into one file that I can present to someone? Why does FCP do this on an export?

  Liam

  Liam Morgan replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Don Greening

  November 21, 2008 at 10:48 am

  [Liam Morgan] “Why does FCP do this on an export? “

  Because you’ve exported to a hard drive that’s probably not formatted in Mac OS Extended, so FCP is splitting your movie into 4 Gbyte chunks. If the media drive is formatted in FAT32 binary, which is the formatting that can be read by both Mac and Windows computers, The file size limit with FAT 32 is 4 Gbytes.

  You might try dropping the number at the end of the filename and try to open one of the segments with QT Player. Otherwise reformat the drive you’re exporting to in Mac OS Extended and re-export your movie.

  Although I never use anything but “Log and Capture” in FCP, I’ve heard that using “Capture Now” may also create the split files that you’re describing.

  – Don
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  Liam Morgan

  November 21, 2008 at 10:54 am

  Oh I see… That makes sense. Thanks!

  Liam

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