Vegas 6 rendering

[John Rofrano]

I don’t believe that Vegas is the thing that is stopping you. 3.99GB is just short of 4GB which is the size limit for the FAT32 file system. Is it possible that you are rendering to a FAT32 drive and not an NTSC drive?

If you are trying to fit this on a DVD you can try rendering as an AVI file and let DVD Architect re-encode the file to fit the disc. This will only work if you are using the NTSC file system because I assume the AVI file will be way bigger than 4GB (more like 32GB).

~jr

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[John Gordon]

John has his letters confused, it happens… he meant to tell you to render on a NTFS file system, not NTSC which is a tv standard….

John Gordon

[John Rofrano]

> he meant to tell you to render on a NTFS file system, not NTSC which is a tv standard….

lol… now why didn’t my finger type that??? Yes, I mean NTFS not NTSC and definitely not NCIS! 😉 (i need more sleep)

~jr

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[Tom Strecker]

While I’m not computer illiterate, I have to admit that I’m not sure how to check for this or how to potentially change it. My son is rendering his files to an external hard drive, so how do I go about configuring it to be NTFS?

[John Rofrano]

> My son is rendering his files to an external hard drive, so how do I go about configuring it to be NTFS?

If this is an external drive, and especially if it’s an external USB drive (Like a Western Digital My Book or My Passport) changes are it is FAT32 because that file system is compatible with both PC and Mac.

First open a command prompt: Start | Run… | cmd | OK

Once you are at the command prompt, run CHKDSK to check the disk for errors and tell you the file system it uses. The chkdsk command needs the drive letter of the disk you want to check. Let’s say the external hard drive is E: you would issue the command:

C:> chkdsk e:

This will come back with something like:

The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume My Passport created 10/28/2002 12:59 PM
Volume Serial Number is 35C0-96B9
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
  312,492,320 KB total disk space.
          160 KB in 5 hidden files.
        2,688 KB in 84 folders.
    1,498,144 KB in 100 files.
   310,991,296 KB are available.

       32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
    9,765,385 total allocation units on disk.
    9,718,478 allocation units available on disk.

That first line is what’s key: The type of the file system is FAT32. That tells you that you have a FAT32 drive and need to convert it to NTFS to get larger than 4GB files on it.

You will need the Volume Label to convert the drive. Issue the following command:

C:> vol e:

This will return something like:

  Volume in drive E is My Passport
  Volume Serial Number is 35C0-96B9

Which means the volume label is My Passport. Remember this for the next step.

To convert you use the CONVERT command like this (still assuming the external hard drive is E:)

C:> convert e: /FS:NTFS /V

This will prompt you with the following:

The type of the file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label for drive E:

This is where you type in the volume label of your drive that I told you to remember in the last step (you did remember it, didn’t you?)

Once you type the correct volume label, this will convert the e: drive to the NTFS file system in verbose mode (‘cuz I like to know what it’s doing). Once that’s done, (…and be patient ‘cuz it will take a while depending on the size of the disk and how full it is) you should be able to create files larger than 4GB on it.

WARNING: This will convert the drive with files in place and all of the original data will still be there, however… It is a good idea to backup this drive before converting just in case. You have been warned.

Please feel free to ask more questions before you try this. Better safe than sorry I always say.

~jr

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