Exporting QT mov to Flash drive

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Exporting QT mov to Flash drive

Posted by Stan Norton on October 4, 2012 at 2:39 pm

I am in FCP-7 (uptodate as much as I AM allowed). The PROBLEM:
1. Exporting timeline as a QT mov. (960×720 Hd) (6.59gb) and save to a large Hard drive.
2. When I try to transfer that QT mov to a 16gb flash drive, I keep getting an Error (0) message. And it won’t take it.
3. I tried another Q. T. mov with a lower gb (4.5gb) and the Flash drive accepts it.
4. When I export the timeline from the FCP timeline as a qt mov directly to the Flash — it accepts it.

There seems to be enough gb in the flash drive. So why won’t the flash take this qt mov.

Thnks for any clues. Stan sp******@*****st.net

Stan Norton replied 13 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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Steven Cohen
October 4, 2012 at 6:21 pm

I was thinking that too Dave, but according to his post he can copy another file over 4GB to the Flash drive.

“3. I tried another Q. T. mov with a lower gb (4.5gb) and the Flash drive accepts it.”

And he can export directly to the flash drive

“4. When I export the timeline from the FCP timeline as a qt mov directly to the Flash — it accepts it.”

Steve.
Stan Norton
October 4, 2012 at 7:02 pm

Thanks for your comments. It is mystery. When I do export directly to
the Flash Drive from the timeline the QT mov. (which is actually 6.64gb) is broken into

QOP2012.mov 2.15gb
QOP2012-av1 2.15gb
QOP2012-av2 2.15gb
QOP2012-av3 236MB

I would like to have it contained in one qt mov. thanks for the help.
Steven Cohen
October 4, 2012 at 8:25 pm

Ah ha. That makes more sense.

Fat 32 drives have a file size limit on them.

Double check the file structure of the drive.
Right Click on it and choose Get Info.
If it says Fat32 it will need to be reformatted to HFS and the you should not have any problems.

Steve.
Michael Gissing
October 4, 2012 at 10:14 pm

One reason why Flash drives are fat32 is for cross platform use. Reformatting to HFS or NTFS limits the ability of Win or Mac cross compatibility.
Stan Norton
October 5, 2012 at 2:59 am

Thanks so much for your advice. The Flash is indeed MS-DOS (FAT32). I have tried to reformat but to no avail. How do you reformat this flash?
Stan
Stan Norton
October 5, 2012 at 3:18 am

I have just learned how to reformat the flash so thanks alot for your help. It is greatly appreciated. I am always amazed at all the info
you can get from helpful people like yourselves on the forums and internet.

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