Any way to get clips larger than 3.99GB?

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digexpressions

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Shot a wedding for the first time yesterday using the HMC150. Noticed that the ceremony was broken up into 3.99GB files. Any way to have larger files? When I drop the two clips side by side on the timeline there is a glich when transitioning from one to the other. Not a big issue this time since I was running two cameras, but might be an issue for those things I only shoot with one cam.
 
Try concatenating the clips using copy /b command (on a PC) or use Panasonic software for transferring video from a card onto a computer.
 
You can't have files bigger than 4GB with the FAT32 system. Don't know about the 'glitch' though, as far as I know it shouldn't drop any frames.
 
If you use a Class10 SDHC (Fat64) with firmware 1.19, you should be able to get the larger file size you want (havent tried it myself).

However, I can see PCs and NLEs choking on the files.
 
PC's should be fine with them. I've got 40gb files in my NLE just now after running stuff through Neo Scene
 
Rikki said:
PC's should be fine with them. I've got 40gb files in my NLE just now after running stuff through Neo Scene
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True as long as you are using the NTFS file system. Unfortunately, many PC's seem to be delivered with a FAT32 file system (thankfully it's easy to convert from FAT32 to NTFS).
 
Really? Not in the last 5 years I've owned them they havent. Windows defaults to formatting as NTFS from XP on wards :S
 
Rikki said:
Really? Not in the last 5 years I've owned them they havent. Windows defaults to formatting as NTFS from XP on wards :S
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Well the Vista Ultimate Laptop that I got two years ago from Dell was delivered with FAT32 and I have bought two external HDs (one Seagate 750GB and a Maxtor 1TB) and both of them came as FAT32.
 
I can see the externals being FAT32 since Macs can use them as well... whenever I buy a hard drive, it seems to be FAT32. But the Vista Ultimate laptop coming as FAT32 seems a bit odd.
 
You should format your hard drives to NTSC. FAT32 is too limited in size and file size and is not suitable for video editing at all.
 
"You should format your hard drives to NTSC" What about ATSC? Sorry.... I know you meant NTFS......
 
rich_r said:
True as long as you are using the NTFS file system. Unfortunately, many PC's seem to be delivered with a FAT32 file system (thankfully it's easy to convert from FAT32 to NTFS).
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PCs, since XP have always been formated with NTFS. The only tme a newer laptop has used FAT32 is for the recovery partition, and that is rare.

Quite a bit of external HDs you buy from the consumer stores are FAT32, so MAC can use them. Of course, for PCs, you just re-format to NTFS.

JohnnyD
 
Two solutions to get around this little annoyance:-
1) Use MTSMerger.exe which merges perfectly but takes time.
2) To avoid messing around merging for most long recordings try to make a momentary break before each 25mins. For speeches and ceremonies you can usually pan away to the audience, cut and resume back on subject thus making a smooth edit.
 
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