TOO BIG!!

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I just finished making a video and when I tried to save it as a movie file I kept getting an error. So I saved the first few seconds of it only and it worked fine...I'm guessing it's because the project is too big. Can anyone help?
 
Well in uncompressed DV-AVI format it's going to be about 12gb for every
hour.

You can save in WMV format which will be smaller but the quality is not
going to be as good. How much free space ison your hard drive and are you
formatted in NTFS or FAT32?
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Anime Master said:
Hey,

I just finished making a video and when I tried to save it as a movie file
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I kept getting an error. So I saved the first few seconds of it only and it
worked fine...I'm guessing it's because the project is too big. Can anyone
help?
 
yeah I've been saving in WMV this whole time...and I'm pretty sure it's FAT32 but I'm not positive...would it be better to transfer it to my DV camera or is there another solution? (btw burning it on to a cd didn't work either)
 
A CD will hold approximately 700mb of data ONLY. One of the options in Save
to My Computer is to compress the data to be a file size of your
specification... ie you tell it how big you want the file size to be and it
will sort out how compressed it will be.

It rather depends on what you ultimately want to do with the finished WMV
file as to how it should be saved.

In FAT32, the file size limitation is only 4gb, which can easily be too
small when handling digital video projects. In XP you can convert to NTFS
format, which handles files up to 4tb in size (and thankfully we don't have
hard drives that big yet!).... and I've had files of 66gb on my drives.

If you are ultimately going to burn a DVD with the file, it's best to keep
it in the best resolution possible, which is DV-AVI, but you are going to
need to save as DV-AVI format and convert the drive to NTFS format. As I
mentioned previously, this is going to be about 12gb per hour of footage and
about 2 hours fits on a DVD. If you're going to make a VCD, then you're
looking at about 56 minutes worth of footage only. An SVCD, only about 35
minutes, but a subsequent much better resolution than a VCD, which will
generally look worse than the average VHS recording!

So you have to work out what you're ultimately going to do with your
project.... and then decide which path to take. And if you're going the
best quality route, it may be that you have to get bigger hard drives and a
DVD burner. On a side note, the new dual layer DVD drives are now appearing
in stores. Instead of a single layer of about 4.3gb they will burn two
layers of about 4.3gb EACH, thereby doubling the amount of data that can be
stored. The drives are in stores, but the disks currently are not. Perhaps
by the end of next month. So if your ultimate aim is to burn DVDs, and you
don't currently have a DVD burner, you will probably want to wait a few
weeks and see prices fall on single layer burners or fork out for a nice new
hot-off-the-shelf dual layer burner!
 
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