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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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NTFS would have handled it just fine. Your “DOS” formatting is the culprit. There is still a 2GB limit on disks formatted with that old style system.
Mac users would be better served by having a cheap PC as a ftp server so as to make it easy to transfer large files.
Steven
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thanks for the reply!
but how come he still cannot open the files burned to DVD-R? he can copy them to a NTFS formatted drive, but they still will not open in windows (premiere, media player or QuickTime. and they still show up as “1.9GB” in size (properties) even though they are 3.5GB. widows shows the DVD as a 3.5GB disk, but the file as 1.9GB?!? also the DOS formatted drive showed up as FAT32 which handles up to 4GB right?
we do have a couple of cheap dell windows xp cpu’s here, but they act the same as his description. we can’t open them either… -
The DVD UDF File system has the same problem. Ever notice that VOB files are under 2 gigs? You MUST use NTFS.
Steve
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so that’s why vob’s are broken up! I always wondered about that.
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Yeah, you really need to have a PC in the office to interface with.
MS or Apple, whichever, in their infinite wisdom; never made NTFS friendly with OSX.
I run into this all the time when I’m transferring things to the ipod to take from the mac to the PC.
Mac’s will see the PC correctly via their shared networking protocols, so you can open a shared folder, swap your files over to the PC and be ready to go from there…
If you like, you can keep a shared folder mounted permanently on your desktop.
-Aaron
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