-
outputting from Avid Xpress Pro on a PC
I’m working with a director who has a 34 minute program in Avid Xpress Pro HD she’s trying to output from her PC laptop. Her plan was to go to tape, until she dropped the laptop and broke the firewire card (it’s broken but too jammed in to remove).
Plan B was to export a QT movie and then drag that over to my mac and make a DVD. That’s turning out to be time-consuming, and when she did a test export, she got an export failed message that said file would exceed 2 gig file size–which sounds like a setting needs to be changed?
I have no experience troubleshooting pc’s, and I’ve only done some basic exporting and DVD authoring. Does anyone have any suggestions for a way to make a DVD in this scenario? The director was talking about going out to buy some DVD authoring software for her pc, and I don’t even know what to recommend. She’s supposed to show this piece on the 16th!
Thanks.
P.S. It’s a Toshiba laptop, but I don’t have specifics about versions or systems at this point–waiting for director to arrive.
-
5 Replies
-
Where is the media located? On an external FW drive? If so, just copy the project onto a jump drive and copy it to your Mac (I’m assuming you have Xpress Pro). The Mac version of Avid should read the project and the media, and you should be able to continue editing, digital cut, etc. on your machine.
Regards,
Joe Womble
-
Hello
I’ve tried creating quicktimes from Avid which have failed too. From what I understand, you can not export files which are larger than 2 gig. I got round this by spliting my timeline up into sections (using add edit so you can clearly see the setions) and exporting each chunck. I then plan to import into imovie and put it all back together again to then burn DVD within iLife.It may seem messy but that’s all I’ve come up with.
Hope it helps
Alison -
You can’t export an .avi over 2 gig, or an OMF, but you can export much quicktimes in any size, depending on the drive you’re exporting to.
I’m guessing you’re exporting to a FAT32 formatted drive. FAT32 has a 2 gig file size limit. If you have another drive that’s formatted NTSF, or if you can reformat your FAT32 drive to NTSF you’ll get around this problem.
Be warned!! Reformatting a harddrive will erase everything on it! Only reformat if you’ve backed everything up or if you can afford to lose all information on that drive!
Michael.
-
Ding ding ding!
Download the trial version of Adobe Encore. Search the forums for Xpress Pro –> DVD workflow using QT Ref movs. Burn your DVD from the laptop, or create an ISO file that can be transferred and burned elsewhere if lappie doesn’t have a DVD burner.
-
Just be careful if you reformat to NTSF as i don’t think Mac can reckonise this format so your drive is only of use on PC. Atleast FAT 32 is suitable for both platforms, it just means you have to work within the 2 gig file size.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up