maximum file size Windows

[barabas]

I capture edit my DV movies with Premiere. When I export the edited movie to an DV avi file, Premiere stops at 19 minutes because the avi file is 4 GB big, the limit of Win98 SE that I'm using. How can I work with larger files? Another operating system? Or go from FAT32 to NTFS? How do I do that?

[jtanguy]

yes, NTFS could be a very good solution (since file size limitation is less restrictive)... But if you want to use NTFS, you will have to switch to Windows2000 or XP...

For the moment you could render your movie in many files (less than 4Gb) and reassemble them using a frame server (like avisynth) for the final export (back on a DV tape for example).

julien.

[barabas]

Thanks, but....if I reassemble, the resulting file will again be larger that 4 GB. Or?

[jtanguy]

not really... the file will be just a script file which tell avisynth to read your files sequentially... But it will be seen by softwares like an unique video file.

For exemple, we have many video files (for more than 4Gb) :
vid.00.avi (3.9Gb), vid.01.avi(3.9Gb) and vid.02.avi (3.9Gb)

You wrote a short avisynth script (a text file we call video.avs):

#This line will open every vid.xx.avi file sequentially
SegmentedAviSource(vid.avi)

And finally open video.avs (few Kb) with the software you want to use to process the whole video file (11.4Gb), et voilà...

If the software don't recognize .avs file you could transform the script in a fake .avi (few Kb) file using the "ffvfw" tool installed with avisynth.

julien

[barabas]

wow! thanks, I can't wait to try it tonight.