-
Capturing long clips to FAT32 file system
When I set up my external hard drive, I somehow made the mistake of letting it format itself to the FAT32 file system. What’s done is done, and there is too much important stuff on their to risk converting it.
So my question is this: I have several hours worth of tapes containing an interview I conducted. I want to capture those tapes to my external HD, but each tape is basically one long clip, with no breaks. Therefore, each AVI file will be way too big for the FAT32 HD, which limits files to 4 or 5 Gigs.
Will the Vegas capture program realize this, and automatically break the segments into a size that FAT32 can handle, or am I going to have to capture to one of my internal HD’s formatted to NTFS?
Thanks.
-
3 Replies
-
Fat32 is limited to 4Gig. Vegas capture will correctly recognize the format of the drive and split into multiple pieces. However, I’d still convert it to NTFS (which can be done using the Convert command without losing your files.)
Edward Troxel
-
So I can go to the command prompt, enter “CONVERT H: /FS:NTFS”, and convert my entire H drive (not just a partition) to NTFS without losing any files?
Thanks.
-Josh
-
I believe you have to to it by partition. So if you had multiple partitions you’d have to do it multiple times.
Edward Troxel
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up