Adobe Premiere & FAT32(Win98)

[VideoMan]

I recently bought a capture card that comes with Premiere. At the same time I am thinking of upgrading my OS.

I have been doing captures with my aiw of videos around 30mins so far. Now I intend to do some which extend to up to 2Hrs+. I was using Win98 and VirtualDub.

My question is, on the package, Premiere is supposed to run on both Win98 and Win2k. But if Premiere can run on Win98, how does it handle long captures? (since the file size would exceed the 4GB barrier.) Does it employ the same strategy as VirtualDub?

I need to know because I am in a dilemma of choosing which OS to reinstall on my PC. Win98 will give me the 4GB barrier if Premiere can't handle it (and the program will go to waste). Win2k is currently giving me some file system incompatibility headaches as well as "Win98-only programs" unusability problems.

Despite the Win2k problems, my mind is a little set on it due to the impression that it's more stable and that it supports larger file sizes. However, programs and drivers are more established in Win98.

Any answers, comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: VideoMan on 2001-10-12 09:23:10 ]</font>

[vitualis]

Adobe Premiere 5.x doesn't support AVI files > 2 Gb (i.e., it doesn't support ?OpenDML).

I don't know about Premiere 6.

In any case, Premiere is not the best program to be capturing video in.

Regards.

[holistic]

This is my method. It works great.

1. CAPTURE multisegmented files with virtual dub
2. IMPORT all the files into premiere
3. cut/edit/...whatever
4a. EXPORT to MPEG/2 encoder (eg: LSX)
4b. EXPORT - frameserve - to TMPEG (my way)