Can’t render quicktime (.MOV) files to local hard drive?!

[Peter Meng]

I was having a similar problem where After Effects, Premiere, and Sony Vegas could not create QT files on certain drives. Thanks to Ray’s tip above this is what I discovered.

It looks like QT will only write to drives with a unique 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.

[Oleg Burinsky]

In my case it was the opposite. My drive S:\ was called ProjectsSSD. I had to leave it’s name blank in order for quicktime to start rendering to this drive.
Had this problem for over a year.