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Splitting HDV video into smaller chunks
Hi, I am using Movie Studio Platinum Pro 9 and am trying to transfer footage from one external hard drive to another. I understand that an FAT32 formatted drive will only receive files 4GB or lower at a time. I really don’t feel comfortable formatting the drive as NTFS due to mixed opinions from people who did so. I have some clips that are 5GB and some that are 10 GB. I believe that they were shot in 1080-60i on my HV30, as I think this is the default HD recording mode. I simply want to use Movie Studio to split these clips to make them small enough to transfer to the new drive, without recompression or loss in quality. I have tried to import the clips into the timeline then render as HDV 1080-60i, but it usually renders about 50% of the clip then reports an error. During this, the preview screen is black and says “No recompression required”. My main goal is to break up the clips without quality loss. If you can help or link me to a thread that has a solution, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Josh, I’ve never heard any complaints from anyone who has done this.
I’m not sure if they still come this way but, for a long time, most hard drives came formatted as FAT-32.
If you have anything on the drive that you want, copy it to another drive and then format the desired one.
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I would recommend you save yourself the hackle and stress
and simply format the drive to NTFS.I dont see what could be
the mix opinions you get from people. Formatting to the better
format of NTFS is apple & oranges, its only an advantage.
You also said your renders are failing. Are you using a powerful pc?
Seeing the “No recompression required” is good,its smart rendering.
It means the footage is not going tru any further processing.Steve Rhoden
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Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
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I have decided to reformat my drive. Thank you for your suggestions. I just got an hp HPE-480t with a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-960 quad-core [3.2GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache] and 12 gb ram (6 dimms). That should be good enough to smart render shouldn’t it?
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[Josh Church] “That should be good enough to smart render shouldn’t it?”
Smart rendering has nothing to do with your PC because it isn’t rendering at all. It just copies the source to the target unaltered so you could use a Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz with 512MB of memory and smart render. It’s totally I/O bound.
The key to smart render is that your target format must exactly match the source files that you want to render so that it can just copy the frames unaltered.
~jr
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Thanks for your reply. Specifically, how can I be sure that the render matches the source material exactly, since Movie Studio usually completes 50% of the render then reports an “error”?
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[Josh Church] “Specifically, how can I be sure that the render matches the source material exactly”
Check out this thread: MPEG-2 SD – getting smart resample to work by Kate Morris.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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