John Graves
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Hi Bill, I am also having a problem like this. Some newer firewire drives I bought from rocstor seem to become “contaminated” after handling large files and can’t record more than a minute or two without causing a “file i/o error” and stopping recording.
Oddly, some older rocstor 200 gig firewire drives I have record video just fine, even though they had once had on them these same large video files — files which “contaminated” the rocstors of later manufacture. I have contacted rocstor regarding this, I have tried their suggestions, still no answers.
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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Well, thanks for your insight Simon. I have since seen the most information on this issue at the apple support website. Quite a number people have brought up the issue of -1309 errors. No, my drives are not daisy chained. They are AV 400’s, at least the destination drive is, not the current source drive.
In some cases it is the last available copy of the files, but to be honest, the files are not too critical in nature and can be redigitized with modest hassle. Nevertheless it is extremely good to find out you may experience these excruciating difficulties before a real job comes along.
One of the best options, I’ve learned, is to seek a utility which will break down large video files into smaller pieces. One such freeware is called “clip creator 2.1.2”, but there are others. That seems my only option at the moment.
-avantis
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“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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I am having an error -1309 when transferring large video files, generally in excess of 4 gigs, from one firewire 400 to another in OSX Panther. It has to do with file size limitation, and I am not sure how to overcome it.
Funny thing is, I did it before. In order to get these files on the drive they are on, I did drag them from one Rocstor firewire drive to another, and it worked. Now, now way, it doesn’t work. The system doesn’t want to let me drag any files in excess of 4 gigs or so…
All drives are formatted HFS extended!
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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Thank you very much for your link. Problem solved.
-AV
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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Thanks for the valuable information. That’s useful. I’m continuing to work with FCP output, and I’m having better results. Actually, I became aware of the whole pulldown menu for streaming quicktime videos, and I’ve been going with a 40K/s music/hi motion setting, 180×120, and 15 x /sec which seems to work fairly well for me. 6 minutes is reduced to 11 megs. Only issue is sometimes there is a slight lag in the audio.
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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I like the sound of making a streaming WMV. How do I do that? Shouldn’t FCP have the WMV file output format available?? And flash for that matter? But whoa, FLASH is first and foremost a vector format…why should FLASH be helpful for streaming video? WMV I know, but FLASH for streaming video?
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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WHat I’m saying, Ed, is that while some links I visit have fairly smooth streaming video I can read on my own DSL line, my own video file I posted to my site cannot play in real time from my Earthlink ISP. Perhaps you’re right, maybe it is the Earthlink server on the other end that makes fast playback possible, and my Earthlink is not giving me the speed I need. As you say, the problem may not be my file format but the server that is supplying the file.
-John
“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”
-Gene
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This is a G4 dual 500 running OS 9.2.2. I have two other 200 gig drives also from Rocstor and I never had this problem, it was only when I went to 300 gig, and come to think of it, once I went a little bit over 200 gig on the 300 gig drive, this is when the drive started acting up! Over 200 gig I can drag files into the drive, but I can’t record directly to the drive, it gives me I/O errors and dropped frames.
thanx
-John
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As I stated in my original post, the drive is “freshly formatted” Mac Extended.
regards
-John
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PS: this is OS9.2.2, G4, FCP 3. Thanks
-John