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Can’t render quicktime (.MOV) files to local hard drive?!
I’ve got one of the strangest problems that I can’t figure out.
For some reason, After Effects and Sony Vegas both won’t let me render MOV/quicktime files to any of my local (internal) hard drives. However, I have no problems rendering them to my external USB drive. It’s only quicktime files that give me this issue. Up until now, I’ve just been rendering them to my external and then moving them onto my local drive(s), but it’d be nice to fix this problem.
Thanks!
-James
P.S. I’ve been using AE cs4 & cs5, and Sony Vegas 9 & 10. The problem occurs on all versions.
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12 Replies
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All I can think of (on a Windows platform) is whether you HD is formated as FAT, as it compared to NTFS doesn’t allow you to copy or create files larger than 2gb or something. So once the file becomes that size, writing to it will be .. illegal and the render will fail.
Could that be it?
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I’m on windows 7 and all of my drives are NTFS formatted, including my external. When I click render, the file doesn’t even start to render, I just get an error.
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can you create any new file on main drive? if you opened note pad and created a new text file, could you save that?
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Yes. I can render and save any other file on my drives. It’s ONLY quicktime (.mov) files that give me trouble.
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is quicktime installed on the system?
if so, is it the latest version?
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
[Kevin Camp] “is quicktime installed on the system?
if so, is it the latest version?”
— sorry, that’s obviously not the problem… you can render quicktime, just not to the main drive (…to little sleep today)
are you always trying the same codec for the mov files? maybe try another codec… lossless animation, photo-jpeg…
i’ve really never heard of anything like this…
i know win7 introduced a bunch of security measures to try and keep the average user from installing malware… the only thing i can think of is that win7 (or maybe some other anti-malware software) has somehow flagged quicktimes as risky files.
maybe there is a way to change the security settings to be less restrictive, or get higher user permissions, like administrator.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
I am also Getting same error while render QT.
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Strange! I just installed new disk in my computer and I also can’t render QT to it! I still can render QT to my all other disk. I am also can render to other kind of files (like JPEG sequence) and write them to my new disk.
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Its a strange one but try renaming your volumes. Changing the name of my drives from ‘Local Disk’ to something else worked for me.
I’d been struggling with the exact same problem for over a year on an extrernal raid array via e-sata – I could render QT to all my local drives but not that one. Every other file type was fine.
Just installed a new local raid drive and got the same problem – re-naming the array cleared it up.
Think it’s a Quicktime bug – hope it works out. Be interested to see if it clears it up for you guys..
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I approve. Changing the Volume name to a different one fixes the problem.
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