after effects error: adding to movie (-1309)

[Curious Turtle]

You can actually change the drive from FAT32 to NTFS without losing your data. But it’s a one way trip and has some big disadvantages for a cross platform workflow. Link here.

NTFS drives can be read by Macs (10.3 and above I think) but you can’t write back to them without some hacks. I’ve read about them, but never tried, so can’t vouch for them.

Windows machines can read HFS drives with some additional software such as Macdrive and others. I used Macdrive a while back but as it involves installing software, it’s not perfect if your client’s Windows machine doesn’t have it installed.

My less than perfect strategy for my most mobile drive is to format it 65% NTFS & 35% FAT32. That way I can easily write >4GB files on the Windows box that can be read all over. And write <4GB files to it from the Mac.

Drives are so cheap now though, that I also have a stack of portable drives formatted HFS & NTFS. It's generally easier that way :o)

All the best,
Ben

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[Steve Roberts]

[Ben Heusner] “My less than perfect strategy for my most mobile drive is to format it 65% NTFS & 35% FAT32. That way I can easily write >4GB files on the Windows box that can be read all over. And write <4GB files to it from the Mac."

Godd tip, Ben. Thanks.

[Sergio Monterrubio]

Hey Steve,

I’m having the same problem with After Effects. I created a slideshow that ended up being real long and rendering is not working (-1309). My question is, how do you segment big comps?

Any advice will help! I’m trying to output a high quality .mov that will eventually go into a DVD.

Thanks!

Sergio I. Monterrubio

sim.design

[Steve Roberts]

It’s in the prefs under “output”: check “segment files at” and select the largest you want your files to be: 1024 is 1 GB, 2048 is 2 GB.

You can then use Quicktime Player (might need Pro) to join them together: for example, open the first and second movie, “select all” and copy while in the second one, move the timeline for the first one to the end, and paste into the first one. Repeat.

[Sergio Monterrubio]

I believe that I read in another thread that there is a way to clear the rAm as you render, is that an option?

Thanks for the quick response! I might need to buy QuickTime pro and try that if I don’t find any other way.

[Steve Roberts]

Check the COW for “secret prefs” or “schecret” to clear while rendering.

You should buy QT Pro anyway – it’s cheap and a necessary part of my toolkit.