I think the majority of people who edit videos do that routinely. DV AVI comes in at ~13GB/hour, and uncompressed AVI at over 60GB, so a >4GB file is not uncommon.Chaotrix wrote:<snip>
How many people have actually tried to create a video file that was larger than the 4gig FAT limit on an NTFS drive?
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I don't capture to uncompressed AVI because the files are prohibitively large, I use lossless Huffyuv compression (at about a 2:1 ratio) using VIVO cards if I have to, but almost always use a Canopus ADVC-300 for analog captures. I've captured single files to DV AVI format that were almost three hours long / ~40GB in size.
I'm curious, was your volume formatted as NTFS initially, or did you use CONVERT.EXE to convert from FAT32 to NTFS? If so, was Videostudio installed before the conversion or after?
Videostudio has had a "Seamless Capture" feature for a while now, which is supposed to automatically break up captured files to work within the limitations of the operating system and file system, i.e. it would create multiple files of up to 4GB in size on a FAT32 volume during a long capture.
Another possiblity is that you are capturing to compressed AVI using a codec that uses obsolete 32-bit file addressing. Using 32-bit integers, it is impossible to handle files larger than 4GB, or even 2GB if the 32-bit integer is signed instead of unsigned.
