Premiere 6.0: error - "Disk Full"

[bthomas]

I'm using Premiere 6.0 to edit some videos. But when I try to "preview" or "export" my movie clip I keep getting an error message "Disk Full". I'm pretty sure this means that I don't have enough RAM for my computer. Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to allow this issue to be resolved.

Below is my computer info, as well as the movie clip info.

My Computer:
900 MHz
128 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
AMD Duron Processor
XP Home Edition
ProSavage Video card

Video Clip:
42 minutes in length
AVI(file extension)
359 MB(size)
Divx Codec (compression)
sample size - 24 bit
Data rate 141 kbps
Audio
AC-3 ACM Decompressor
Bit rate 224 kbps
Image
Width- 672 px
Height-368 px

Do I have to cut the movie into smaller pieces, with other software and import the smaller pieces one at a time and work with them?

Should I use mpeg software to re-compress the movie even smaller?

Should I invest in a better computer?

Is RAM even the issue here, if so can I temporarily improve it?

[sitlet]

its not the ram. disk full usually means your hard drive is full. go to my computer and right click on your c drive and click properties, and see how much free space you have. you may need to invest into a bigger hard drive. while your pc isnt the fastest around, you still should be fine working with premiere. it will be a little slow, but it will work

[djtrixx]

Hey there,

I have found that Premeire is extremely picky when exporting. When you export, don't try to change to many settings. When export, click Settings ->Load -> and pick a way to export it. Usually what I do is first export the movie as DVD NTSC, and uncheck the audio only. Then I go back and export the audio as an MPEG (For exporting as DVD, Adobe doesn't let me use any compression for the audio, Hence, the 2nd export is audio only, no video) After this, I still use TMPGEnc to re-encode the video stream to whatever the final project is.

I guess it all depends on what you are actually trying to export. VHS or LD capture? What are you going to convert to? If you list what you are doing I can better answer you. (i.e. how you are capturing and how much room you actually have left on your scratch drive)

In any case, the "Error disk full" is mostly a simple default error message saying that something is wrong that it doesn't like. I already have gotten it when exporting to a completely empty 120Gig HD.

Cheers,
Trixx

[bthomas]

You both may be right about me not having enough HD space. I'm sitting at about 2.8 GB on a 40GB Hard drive, I will go clean out some stuff that I don't need and see what happens.

I'm not trying to export to a medium like a VHS tape or DVD...I'm just making a music video, for fun, and plan to export it as an AVI and maybe toss it on Kazaa.

I like your Idea(djtrixx) about exporting audio and video seperatley, then using TEMGEnc to combine the audio/video together.

If the above information works...Thanks for the help.

[Turbo245]

I had this problem too with Nero 6...When it asks you your "target destination" in the burning s/w, you have to put down your burner drive, ie "D", "E" or whatever...This then, for some reason, creates a folder that holds the iso files with getting full...Go figure....?