Urgent...Maximum movie file size? Need NTFS HD conversion?

[Guest]

As most people are on this forum, I am under the gun to finish a project in
the next 24 hours...

I have a 50 minute video that I cannot save to the HD to burn to DVD. It
anticipates a file size of 11,000 Meg. It starts the process and says 45
minutes remaining and then the time increases dramatically to hundereds of
minutes and the dialogue box comes up saying the WMM has encountered an error
and needs to close.

I read Papa John's FAQ and it mentions that the overall limitations of a FAT
or FAT 32 system is a 2 to 4 gig file. Is this file simply too big for a
standard desktop and do I need to do the NTFS partitioning mentioned on his
site?

Would tripling my RAM from 1 to 3 Gig help?

FYI - I have a P4 3.2GHz processor, 1 Gig if RAM and over 100 gig free on my
HDD.

 

[PapaJohn]

A one hour video is about 13 GB when saved to DV-AVI.... and the FAT32 limit
of 4 GB would preclude you saving it. The NTFS file system removes the
restriction.

No, tripling RAM from 1 GB wouldn't help.... assuming your virtual swap file
size is at or higher than 1 GB you already have 2 GB of total memory to use,
and Movie Maker doesn't use more than that. Adding RAM would make things
faster but not let you use more than the 2 GB.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the super quick response John. I guess that confirms that NTFS is
the only solution to get this baby saved. I will go home and try it.

 

[PapaJohn]

try saving it to a small choice like one of the Pocket PC profile... just
to confirm there aren't any other issues with saving the movie...

 

[Guest]

Tried Pocket PC small and it is hanging while trying to render. No progress
on the % status bar and the time remaining is blank. I assume I have some
other problems, huh?

These are mpeg files (I know not preferred) from my Sony DVD camcorder and
some wav files. I also have basic transitions that I can live without if
they are the problem.

I noticed others are having problems with IE 7.0. I have that installed and
am willing to delete it, but based on other posts, IE 7 seemed to preclude
folks from launching the program, not rendering the movie.

 

[PapaJohn]

the MPEG-2 files could very well be the reason...

 

[Guest]

Is there any chance mpeg 2 will work with the HDD converted to NFTS or is WMM
simply so incompatible with mpeg 2 that I have wasted 25 hours of editing?
Boy I wish the program would have given me that advice when I imported the
video.

 

[PapaJohn]

there's a slim chance it'll work on another computer... I just reviewed my
notes on my Managing > Source Files page to see if there's any way to swap
an MPEG-2 file out with a different one (AVI or WMV), something I need to
try.

You'll need the extra file size on the drive if you're saving to DV-AVI
regardless of source files...

 

[PapaJohn]

I just did a test... using an MPEG-2 file in a project, and then making a
DV-AVI file from the MPEG-2... and substituting the DV-AVI for MPEG-2

Movie Maker accepted the substitute and rendered a movie fine... as the new
file is a clone of the original except for file type, no tweaking of the
project was needed. This will be a new comment for my website...

PapaJohn