Burning issues in Ulead 8 if the final DVD is >3 gig.

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:46 am

IronMike778 wrote:Also, for what it's worth, I just noticed that my D: drive is a fat32 file system and my C: drive is an NTFS file system. I have been doing projects with footage from my D: Drive and ULEAD runs terribly when I do so. Can I assume the Fat 32 has everything to do with that?

I can make a comment about this. FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4 Gb (with avi files this would be about 20 minutes, with mpegs somewhat longer, depending on compression). NTFS has no such limitation. Don't know how much it has to do with the original problem, but I recommend that you change the file system on the D drive to NTFS - then you'v eelimintaed one thing.

IronMike778 · Post by **IronMike778** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:12 am

Problem solved! It was the hard disk space after all. I managed to get my c: drive to 21 gig free, burned my disc, and what do you know....smooth as silk. Actually, at about the 23 minute mark of my video there are a few hesitations, but it works through it and keeps playing. The main trouble spot of all previous burns was the 3rd chapter of my video. This is at about the 35 minute mark and every time I put my disk in and went to this chapter- nothing. It wouldn't play. The screen was frozen with a few quivers - it wouldn't play at all.

On my first disc after freeing my hard drive to 21 gig I went right to chapter 3 and it played fine throughout the rest of the video.

Moral of the story? Have atleast 20 gig free if burning more than about 2 gig of video. I guess the reason I never had this trouble before was because I had been burning discs with less than a gig of video.....just 2 or 3 short music videos per disc. Thanks everyone for your help.....hopefully I really have solved this problem. Mike

IronMike778 · Post by **IronMike778** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:16 am

rwindeyer wrote:
IronMike778 wrote:Also, for what it's worth, I just noticed that my D: drive is a fat32 file system and my C: drive is an NTFS file system. I have been doing projects with footage from my D: Drive and ULEAD runs terribly when I do so. Can I assume the Fat 32 has everything to do with that?
I can make a comment about this. FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4 Gb (with avi files this would be about 20 minutes, with mpegs somewhat longer, depending on compression). NTFS has no such limitation. Don't know how much it has to do with the original problem, but I recommend that you change the file system on the D drive to NTFS - then you'v eelimintaed one thing.

How do I change the file system on Drive D? Can that actually be done? It's a drive I originally purchased in 2001, if that matters. It's 7200RPM.

62cwil · Post by **62cwil** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:35 am

I know how frustrating it is to run into these types of issues. Three weeks ago I was having problems burning large disks as well as other issues. Either I was asking the wrong questions or respondents didn't understand what I was asking. For me calling Tech Service is not expensive since I am only about 100 miles down the road and on my plan in Ca. I have unlimited State calls so even though I see lot's of messages slamming Tech Service, other than the wait 10 min so so each time I called I found them to be quite friendly and resolved my issue every time. If you haven't already talked to them you might want to consider. Thats my 2 cents worth. Hope you get your issue resolved. By the way I downloaded the 8.1 patch, make sure you get the right one and yesterday burned a 3.6 gig movie and it worked great.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:51 am

To reformat your hard disk in XP, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Highlight the disk in question, then choose Action > All Tasks > Format.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:28 am

STOP! You don't need to reformat the drive to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. All you need to do is execute convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs from a command prompt or the Run dialog. This will convert the drive you specify to NTFS without losing any of the contents on the drive.

IronMike778 · Post by **IronMike778** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:58 pm

THoff wrote:STOP! You don't need to reformat the drive to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. All you need to do is execute convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs from a command prompt or the Run dialog. This will convert the drive you specify to NTFS without losing any of the contents on the drive.

Thanks for the tip. I can assure you that the word "reformat" scares me to death! Lol.......would never reformat it. I can tell you that I do not save any video more than 4 gig onto this D: Drive. However, I do keep a lot of smaller video files on this D: Drive that I use in my projects. Is it the FAT 32 thing that makes my projects almost unworkable at times? I've got a 3.2 gig processor and 1 gig of memory, so I shouldn't have too many issues, but I do. I'm thinking it's the FAT32, but is that even relevant?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:26 pm

What kind of drives are you working with, and is DMA enabled for them?

Is the "D" drive a physically separate drive from "C", or is it a logical partition?

I use videos from one of 7 different drives, and some of them are FAT32 while others are NTFS -- never see any horrible performance differences. In fact, I think Fat32 has a little faster access speed than NTFS (depending on blocksizing).

With Hard drives so cheap nowadays, if you have the room in your computer you could add another drive (or maybe even an external firewire or USB 2.0 drive). I just picked up a 160gb HD from OfficeMax or Staples a few weeks ago for $30 after rebate.

George

IronMike778 · Post by **IronMike778** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:16 pm

GeorgeW wrote:What kind of drives are you working with, and is DMA enabled for them?

George

I'm going to show my ignorance, but how do Ifind out if DMA is enabled?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:40 pm

Down a few posts from this one, there is another post titled "Enabling DMA" -- have a look in there for setting it at the controller.

Also, try a throughput test just to see how well your drives are performing. I use a cool little utility from Canopus called Raptest.

You can download the free version here (use the RAPTEST.EXE, there's another one that has a similar name, but the one I use is the RAPTEST.EXE)
http://www.canopus.us/US/products/free_ ... lities.asp

George

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:03 pm

IronMike778 wrote:[I can tell you that I do not save any video more than 4 gig onto this D: Drive. However, I do keep a lot of smaller video files on this D: Drive that I use in my projects. Is it the FAT 32 thing that makes my projects almost unworkable at times? I've got a 3.2 gig processor and 1 gig of memory, so I shouldn't have too many issues, but I do. I'm thinking it's the FAT32, but is that even relevant?

In this situation it doesn't matter if the drive is FAT32 or NTFS. As long as you're not running into the file size problem you will never notice a difference.

IronMike778 · Post by **IronMike778** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:16 pm

rwindeyer wrote:
IronMike778 wrote:[I can tell you that I do not save any video more than 4 gig onto this D: Drive. However, I do keep a lot of smaller video files on this D: Drive that I use in my projects. Is it the FAT 32 thing that makes my projects almost unworkable at times? I've got a 3.2 gig processor and 1 gig of memory, so I shouldn't have too many issues, but I do. I'm thinking it's the FAT32, but is that even relevant?
In this situation it doesn't matter if the drive is FAT32 or NTFS. As long as you're not running into the file size problem you will never notice a difference.

Great, thank you. That's all I needed to know.

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Burning issues in Ulead 8 if the final DVD is >3 gig.

What type of drives?

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Enabling DMA