Pinnacle Studio 8 and 4gb limit restriction

[devdeep]

Is it possible to increase this capture limit please? It seems to stop capture every 4Gb.

[pokito]

what OS/file system are you using? I am using winXP and NTFS and one of my capture is 30GB

[devdeep]

I am using XP Pro. Where do you set the 30Mb limit please?

[Redd]

For some unknown reason, who ever built that computer did not format it to NTFS. Your Win XP Pro is formatted to FAT32. Didn't they ask you how you wanted the hard drive formatted to NTFS when you ordered it? That person should be fired.

You will now have to partition your existing HD and format the new partition to NTFS. Capture all video to the new NTFS partition,

Better Yet, add a dedicated hard drive for video only. You'll want the largest you can afford, I'd go with at least 120 gigs. You can add a internal 7200-RPM with a 8 MB buffer or go for an external USB2 or Firewire HD. A separate dedicated video only HD is the best way to go and also recommended by Pinnacle for use with Studio.

Too bad you didn't get matched HD's and configured a RAID system. That would be even better.

[devdeep]

Are you sure you are not the one to sold me the drive?!? I have just got the IBM 120GB 7200 8mb cache dirve for this reason!!!

I will partition it and format it to NTFS. As a newbie, will this solve the 4mb problem? Also if I run the first drive as FAT32 and the second as NTFS, will there be issues?

I also thought Pinnacle Studio 8 lets you edit MPEG2 files but I just cannot figure out how. I have a lot of camcorder movies to t/f to DVD and my ATI card captues in MPG2 format. If only I can edit these files to cut away bits that would be great

[Redd]

Are you sure you are not the one to sold me the drive?!? I have just got the IBM 120GB 7200 8mb cache drive for this reason!!!

So what do they say about great minds

I will partition it and format it to NTFS. As a newbie, will this solve the 4mb problem? Also if I run the first drive as FAT32 and the second as NTFS, will there be issues?

It's not necessary to partition the new drive, just make sure you format it to NTFS. There will be no issues with 4mb limit on file sizes. Once you have formatted the drive, create the folders you will need...If your new drive is the F:\Drive...

F:\Captured Video
F:\Edited Video
F:\Frame Grabs

Studio will make the AUX, Temp, DVD and whatever other folders it needs automatically.

There should not be any issues with leaving the FAT32 on Win XP Pro...But NTFS would be much more user friendly for you. Why restrict yourself to those 4mb file sizes?

also thought Pinnacle Studio 8 lets you edit MPEG2 files

Yes you can import mpeg2's back into Studio 8, and yes they can be re-edited. But the changes you make will have to be re-rendered again to mpeg2 if you want to go back to DVD.
If your mpeg is source is on DVD now, copy the DVD to your HD. Change the .vob extension to a mpeg extension, then import into Studio.
If the original mpeg was rendered with mpeg audio, then you will have audio in the imported mpeg. If the original mpeg was rendered with PCM audio, then there will be no audio using Studio.
To get around this, use your stand-alone DVD player and recapture the DVD. It will be in avi format. Then you can edit, render and burn to DVD again.

BTW...Have you been to the Pinnacle Studio 8 web board? Many questions answered here.

http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_forums.asp?SectionID=143&WebBoardID=1&LNG=1&QA=T

[ebenton]

I have a 20G hard drive which I use for backing up my DVD movies. It used to be FAT32, but I reformatted it to NTFS. Before I reformatted it, I had no problems with having one FAT32 and one NTFS drive using Windows XP Home.

I probably didn't need to reformat it, since backing up DVD movies doesn't require any file sizes bigger than 4 GB, but I did it anyway, just in case.

[Redd]

I probably didn't need to reformat it, since backing up DVD movies doesn't require any file sizes bigger than 4 GB, but I did it anyway, just in case.

But if capturing to avi...I've captured avi files from 10 gigs to as large as 40 gigs prior to editing them down, then rendering to mpeg2. NTFS is a necessary format for these situations.

[rkr1958]

what OS/file system are you using? I am using winXP and NTFS and one of my capture is 30GB

What did you use to capture? And, do you ever have audio / video sync problems with captures this long? I once did a 60-minute capture with Studio DV but my audio and video got out of sync near the end. I now limit my captures with Studio DV to 30-minutes or less.

[pokito]

What did you use to capture? And, do you ever have audio / video sync problems with captures this long? I once did a 60-minute capture with Studio DV but my audio and video got out of sync near the end. I now limit my captures with Studio DV to 30-minutes or less.

I am using Pinnacle Studio Moviebox DV, capturing to full-quality DV. A 2-hour camcorder tape results in a 25 to 30 GB avi file. What is audio/video sync problem? I probably miss it b/c I edit the 120+ minutes capture down to about 85-90min to fit on one DVD.
from Pinnacle forum, people seems to have lots of problem with this product but I encounter little since I only do some minor editing with Studio8 (add tittle, transitions, trim video) and output to mpeg. I then author the mpeg's using MF2. The captured video is very good compared to the original video.

[Redd]

What is audio/video sync problem?

Normally refered to as OOS. If you don't have it, you're very fortunate. I've gotten around any OOS by capturing with Scenalyzer when using Studio 8.

[RayS]

Lots of traffic, but I didn't see where you answered the question about Operating System's. Win98SE and older OS's have a 4Gig limit in file size. (2Gig if not FAT32). I was told that this was a hang-over from their DOS shells. I have also been told that Win2000 and XP do not have this limitation. I'm still running Win98SE.
Although I don't own Pinnacle Studeo 8, I do own Pinnacle Express. It's great for what I need but has one big flaw - sounds like the same issue you may have - where it will only capture up to one 4Gig file and stop - i.e. does not roll the the file name over and create sequential files.
My solution now is to use WinDV for capture and then pull the files into Pinnacle. The editing tools in Pinnacle Express do a great and seamless job stitching the files together during Transcoding. I could never figure out why Pinnacle didn't build the Roll-over feature into its own capture software. I'm very surprised that Studio 8 seems to have the same flaw. I almost made the mistake of upgrading to Studio 8 thinking that the file size limitation was because of Express being so inexpensive.

[acd-75]

I changed to XP pro and NTFS but still had problems.

When you capture DV to an AVI file, is it type 1 or 2?

I know one of them allows you to capture AVI files as large as you like but the other is limited to 2Gig. The guy at Canopus in the UK told me this. I use the ADVC-100 and the bundled EZDV card which acts like a firewire card. The EZDV makes the AVI's the type that are size limited.

To get round this I have to either use the Canopus Reference AVI way or buy a normal firewire card.

Andy.