NTFS or FAT32 ?

[MacUK]

Does anyone know whats best, NTSF or FAT32 when converting large video's , or is there any differance to speed / quality etc ...

[Nerk01]

if i remember correctly there wont be a difference speed/quality wise but NTFS is much better at reducing cluster slack with large harddrives

[digvid]

IMHO, I think that NTFS performs better than FAT32. Another thing to consider if you are working with *very* large videos is that FAT32 has a 4GB file limit, while NTFS does not.

- digvid

[kinneera]

NTFS uses only 64K clusters, which is actually the most inefficient cluster size. Like mentioned though, it does avoid the 4GB filesize limit (but not the 2GB AVI limit).

[Nerk01]

64K?? Sure...
NTFS uses 4K clusters IF it is windows 2000, dont know why you would be using NT4 for video stuff.... I did not know FAT32 had a 4GB file size limit, well you learn something new every day!

[d_hitman]

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NTFS uses only 64K clusters, which is actually the most inefficient cluster size. Like mentioned though, it does avoid the 4GB filesize limit (but not the 2GB AVI limit).
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What exactly do we mean by the 2GB AVI limit? I have been capturing to an NTFS drive using virtualdub/iuVCR to compressed (huffy/picvideo) avi files with file size much greater than 2GB: 6 to 7 GB for 1 hour long movies or 14 to 15 GB for 2 hour long ones. And have been successful processing them to VCD compliant mpeg files in TMP. I am using win2k.

Am I doing something right? or wrong? is there sometrhing I have to watch out for? if so what? would appreciate some commnents/suggestions

btw,

* I do not use multisegment feature of virtualdub and I also turn off the parameters under stop conditions relating to file size

Or in the case of iuVCR:

* I set iuVCR to No File Limit

[kinneera]

Technically the AVI 2.0 spec doesn't support files larger than 2 GB. So some software may not accept them. If you aren't having any problems though, then I guess you don't need to worry about it.

[d_hitman]

Kin....thanks. Guess you're right but will keep that (2GB limit) in mind - just in case I encounter some sort of trouble with these huge files.

[vitualis]

e.g., Adobe Premiere 5.x does not like AVI files > 2 Gb.

Regards.

[purplepoopdaloop]

here is a question if you use one format say ntfs with win 2000 and i have another pc with fat 32 are they compatible to exchange data over a lan

[d_hitman]

vitualis, tnx for the info.

[HillJack]

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here is a question if you use one format say ntfs with win 2000 and i have another pc with fat 32 are they compatible to exchange data over a lan
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That's like asking can your MAC exchange data with my PC over the Internet. As long as your OS can read the data from the local drive(s), then of course!

The only catch is that Win 9X can't read a file larger than 4GB, so if you have a 5GB file on NTFS, then WinME won't load it.


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