2 problems with large video files

[Matt Sachtler]

I recently came back from a vacation with one video tape
full and another with about 5 more minutes of video that
i want to edit on my computer. My computer does not have
a firewire card, but another computer in the house does,
and both are connected through our LAN. i copied the
video files over to the other computer (the full tape-
11.8gb, the small one 2.8gb, both in DV-AVI format), and
when i tried moving them to my computer through the lan,
i get a message saying that i do not have enough disk
space. the hard drive i was copying to has at least 40
gigs free, so there must be some other problem...im not
sure what though. if anyone knows how i can get it to my
computer, please let me know.

and my second problem...

i got the second tape's 5 minutes or so copied to my
computer sucessfully over the lan from the other
computer. I imported it into movie maker, and as soon as
i clicked the clip to play it back, movie maker stopped
responding. i tried opening other, smaller files and they
worked fine. i cant do anything with that one file though-
-maybe it's too big? that (and the other large one) are
DV-AVI format....if anyone has solutions to either or
both of my problems, or needs me to clarify anything, let
me know. thanks a lot.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If the drive is still in FAT32 format, there's a 4gb file size limitation.
NTFS has a file size limitation of 4 terrabytes, and I doubt you'll ever
need that much!

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Bob]

Matt,

It's easy to convert a drive from FAT32 to NTFS.
Just open a Command Prompt window, and type:

convert X: /fs:ntfs

Where X: is the letter of the drive you want to convert.

Note that if the drive is the boot drive, you will need to
reboot your PC afterwards for the change to take effect.

-Bob