Caps stop after 9 mins 20 secs...

[acd-75]

Hi Everyone!

Right, I am new new all this but I have read this website for ages. I upgraded from ME to Win XP Pro to get round the file size limit. But when I capture DV from Canopus ADVC-100 using Adobe Premiere 6.5 the file stops saving just over 9 mins into the capture. Any clues??

I am capping as AVI and NOT as Ref AVI as the manual for the Premiere plug-in said not to use Ref AVI when capping in movie mode.

Basically I want to take Concert and TV shows and put them on SVCD.

I know Premiere is complicated to start off in but it seems to be popular.

Anyway, what do I do to cap something longer than 9 mins? I will be using Canopus Procoder to make the AVI file to mpeg1 or 2.

Thanks for your tips and help....

PS: If anyone near Liverpool, UK wants to show the basics of using Premiere please get in touch! I am trying to learn as I go along and its too comlicated!!!

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[Bob W]

Hmm did you format your hard drive NTSF?

[jdjbuffalo]

acd-75

The reason why you can only capture 9 minutes of video is the same reason you needed to upgrade from Windows ME to Windows XP. Your still hitting that 2GB limit.

This is a limitation of the FAT32 file system. In order to get around it you need to format the drive your recording to into NTFS. If this is a drive that you have other files on (music, videos, etc) then I would move that stuff to another drive or burn it or do whatever you need to. Then format the drive with a formating/partitioning program like Partition Magic http://www.powerquest.com/ or you can use the formating utility built into Windows. **Please note that formating/partitioning a drive will ERASE EVERYTHING on that partition/drive.

If you want to format the drive/partition in Windows go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Then Choose "Storage" and then "Disk Management". This will display all the hard drive and partition on your system. From here you can right click on a drive/partition and select "Format". From there just follow the wizard and make sure to select "NTFS" and NOT "FAT32" for the format type.

This should allow you to capture as many minutes/hours you want.

Jon

[Ripper2860]

If all you really need to do is get past the FAT32 2GB file size limit -- you can use the CONVERT utility included in WINXP and 2000 to convert from a FAT32 to NTFS file system without re-partitioning or losing data. I've done it on several systems and it works beautifully.

** As a precaution backup any important stuff. While I've never lost data to this process -- you just never know !!

Command Prompt Syntax: CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS

For all of the parameters: CONVERT /?

However, if you need to re-partition/change partition sizes and convert to NTFS -- Partition Magic will do nicely. However, as stated, you will need to backup your data.

[Mrdogno8]

I have same problem even with NTFS formatted drives - gave up on trying to solve as found it was easy to get round by capturing as AVI ref file.

[acd-75]

Thanks for your replies!

I should have mentioned, the 2nd HD is dedicated for video (when I actually get started!) and formatted using disk manager in XP to be NTFS.

Someone metioned to me that an AVI file can not be more that 9 mins long regardless of using NTFS file system.

Is this correct or are they talking kak?

Andy

[theDruid]

Someone metioned to me that an AVI file can not be more that 9 mins long regardless of using NTFS file system.

Is this correct or are they talking kak?

They're talking smelly-stuff

There are tens of thousands of complete movies circulating as avi files (rightly or wrongly), and although few of these files are bigger than the FAT32 file-size limit, they're certainly longer than 9 minutes!

The length of a clip in terms of time is only relevant in the context of bitrate/compression. At a very low bitrate, you could fit a lot of 'time' into a small file.

So, if you're talking about a limit on the 'size' of an avi - it's down to the operating system/file system's limit on file-sizes (I think the limit's pretty massive in NTFS, but I can't remember exactly what it is).

In terms of a limit on the 'length' of a clip, this depends on the file-size limit (see above), and the bitrate its encoded at.

Sorry that's not much help with your original question, but I hope it's answered one question anyway.

cheers,
mcdruid.