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Dealing with large movie files?
I’ve been sent some uncompressed quicktime movies on dual layer DVD Roms to encode and compress onto a DVD. Each movie is about 6 gigs and the discs only register on one of my machines. I can open them direct from the DVD ROM in quicktime fine but when I try to copy them from the DVD onto my harddrive it gets to about 75% and hits an error. I’ve tried dragging the movies direct into sorenson squeeze and compressing them straight to my hard drive but I still get an error.
Anyone come across this before? Is it down to the performance of my machine?
If theres no way of getting the DVD to work what’s a better way of receiving the files, will getting them in a tiff/png sequence help?
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5 Replies
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Are you on a Mac or PC?
It sounds like an issue with hard drive space, file system type (i.e. FAT32 vs. NTFS vs. HFS) or something similar.
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a single 6GB is ridiculous. This sounds like a file corruption. I’d try copying the disc using another machine. Repeat and rinse. If the results are identical then get back to your client to tell them that the file is corrupted. Let them know that they should split the file up during the render stage into pieces no larger than 1GB.
This is one of those things real-world lessons that are painful to learn.
Good Luck
Roland Kahlenberg
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I just wanted to add that the DVD specs call for VOB’s no larger than 1GB. Anything larger gets split up. There must be a good reason for the 1GB limit for a single file. And those folks certainly know their stuff.
Even if your is a data DVD, I’d still adhere to what the experts limit. Share this with your client.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace -
Was hoping there’s a way of avoiding going back to the client as I’m under a tight deadline. Thanks for the advice.
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Like beenyweenis said
If your hard drive is fat32 ie a mac or older pc or even if its just a fat32 partition drive for compatability then that could be the problem.
Fat32 has a 4gig file size restriction. And that would be somewhere around 67%.
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