Ater Effect error when trying to render Quicktime file

[Stan Weiss]

thanks again..if i ever figure out I will post the solution here!
thanks again
Stan

[Michael Szalapski]

No problem. Glad to (attempt to) help! 🙂

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[Peter Meng]

I was having a similar problem where After Effects, Premiere, and Sony Vegas could not create QT files on certain drives.

It looks like QT will only write to drives with a unique Volume name. See following thread:
forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1002655

[Peter Meng]

Sorry. Looks like the link I posted above isn’t working. Here’s my full reply from the other thread.
I was having a similar problem where After Effects, Premiere, and Sony Vegas could not create QT files on certain drives. Rob Maybury provided a useful tip in the other thread.

It looks like QT will only write to drives with a unique Volume name. My volumes were set up as follows (looking at Windows File Explorer)

Local Disk (C:)
New Volume (F:)
New Volume (G:)
New Volume (H:)

I could create files in C: and F: but not in G: and H:. After changing the Volume names so they all were unique:

Local Disk (C:)
SSD Volume (F:)
Main Volume (G:)
New Volume (H:)

I could now create files on any drive.

To change the Volume name, right click on the drive and select ‘rename’ or bring up the properties window and rename it there.