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AVID exporting issues….Pleas Help!
I am trying to export a timeline to an external hard drive that has plenty of space on it. The problem is that at 20% complete it stops and gives me an error message that states the file is to large and it can not be completeed. I am trying to export it as an AVI, 720×480, uncompressed. Do you know what I could do to correct this?
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[TVPROJOSH] “Do you know what I could do to correct this?”
Don’t export an avi. The type of avi that Avid exports is limited to 2GB. If you’re exporting an uncompressed avi you’ll hit that limit very quickly.
Exporting a quicktime will work, then you can take that to a third party conversion/transcoding program (like ProCoder or Sorenson Squeeze), and covert the quicktime to an avi, if you have to have an avi.
Michael.
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Is there a chance that your external drive is formatted FAT instead of NTFS?
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[MHancock (promoboy)] “Exporting a quicktime will work, then you can take that to a third party conversion/transcoding program (like ProCoder or Sorenson Squeeze), and covert the quicktime to an avi, if you have to have an avi.”
Let me ask you something: This process you describe will give an uncompressed .AVI? Do the footage decreases quality with this process? Do you mean exporting as QT Reference or QT alone? How can I export the best QT and get the best .AVI?
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I always export QT Ref files and convert them to what I need in Procoder. The reference file allows Procoder to use the original files avoiding multiple compressions/conversions which will degrade the final quality. I am not immediately sure if Procoder or Sorenson will make an uncompressed .AVI, maybe even try Adobe Premiere if they wont, it will also accept the QT Ref file.
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