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Capture Ended Due to Lack of Disk Space
I have seen this come up a couple of times, but I still am having a problem. I’m trying to capture a miniDV tape from my deck with 50 minutes of footage on it. The hardrive I’m saving the data to has 120Gigs of space. I tried the suggestions of Trashing my Prefs and disconnecting my deck and restarting FCP, but, I keep getting this error just after nine minutes. There’s plenty of space on the hard drives, although, I have only one selected as my Scratch disk. I do have my Scratch disk set within an adjacent folder to my .fcp files. So, they are on the same drive, but not exactly the same folder. Such as, Parent folder has 2 folders, work files and FCP files. Perhaps this isn’t the way to set this up, but I’m trying to keep all files associated with a project in a single location and this is what I thought of. I dont understand why this is happening.
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6 Replies
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How is the hard drive formatted?
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One of them definitely has a FAT32 issue. I did not reformat one of my drives. This has never been a problem in the past. However, I have the same problem trying to save it to my main harddrive or to another harddrive that is properly formatted. So, I don’t think this is the problem.
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Fat32 has a file size limit that could easily cause the problem.
Reformat the drive MacOS Extended.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Does it need to be captured as one 50 minute clip? Why not capture it as a series of smaller clips?
I would agree with Zane though, an error message like that normally has to do with trying to capture to a Fat32 drive
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9 minutes is the tip off. DV runs about 5 minutes per gig, and the FAT32 file size limit is 2 gigs if I remember correctly.
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Thanks everyone! That was it. I thought I tried previously to save it to my harddrive and was having the same problem, but I guess not.
Oh, and the reason for wanting to capture large files is to capture and walk away. Allow me to work on other things without having to babysit the capture. That’s all. Thanks again.
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