work around for 4gb limit

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Johny

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If your hard drive is fat32 is there away to get around the 4 gig limit when rendering off the timeline. . I have a movie that is a little over and hour and I'd like to compress it to as close as I can, to the 4.7 gb's a dvd holds, so I can keep as much quality as I can.
 
The 4GB filesize limitation is a limit of the FAT32 filesystem itself. You'll need to write to an NTFS volume to get > 4GB in a single file.

That said, if you compress to MPEG-2 Elementary Streams instead of an MPEG-2 Program Stream, you'll be able to get a 4GB MPEG-2 video stream at least...

But whether your authoring software supports importing elementary streams or not will be the question.

Better to just use an NTFS volume.

Brandon
 
The other thing you can do is a non-destructive conversion from FAT32 to NTFS (though I would make a backup first, but you should have one anyway):

CONVERT driveletter: /FS:NTFS

If you type that into a command prompt or the Start -> Run dialog, it will do the file system conversion without losing any files on the drive you select.
 
If you are looking into going with an ntfs setup rather than the fat32, and you don't want re-format to acheive this, there are a few other things you should do in addition to the command that thoff gave you. Check this site out. It would be a good place to start if you decide you want to convert and don't want to reformat to do so.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Jason
 
very helpful

very helpful

Thanks guys, this is very helpfull stuff. It's the second built in drive of the acer laptop I've been working with. It came completely empty so I guess I'm not in any danger of ruining any activations by reformatting it . . . I hope . . .
 
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