Panasonic Enc won't encode more than 2GB of AVI?

[SupaCoopa]

Hi video people.
I recently came across a strange situation. I had a 5' long uncompressed AVI file which I tried to encode using Panasonic MPEG Enc 2.3 stand-alone. The file was about 2,5GB in size. I tried many times but the resulting MPG file was always shortened by about a minute or so.
I then had the idea of compressing the AVI using Premiere and the resulting file was just above 800MB. I fed Panasonic this smaller file and the MPG was just right this time, no part was cut!
Does this mean that Panasonic can't proccess files bigger than 2GB? And is there any trick around this?
Thanks and cheers to all

[vitualis]

I don't know about v2.3, but for v2.51 you can do the following:

If you have the stand-alone version, you can actually load multiple AVI files and encode them all as one MPEG (it's in the batch options).

If you have the plug-in version, you could just load up the AVIs on the Premiere time-line and export it.

Regards.

[iant]

Third option.
Load the large AVI into VirtualDub and frameserve to panasonic.

The Panasonic encoder does have the standard 2 gig file limitation on AVIs. The VirtualDub multi segment capture and frameserver is about the best way to get past most of these size limitations.