Quicktime files

[Berkey]

I keep trying to export my Premiere timeline to Quicktime MOV (using Windows XP) but it only gets a small percentage of it encoded, and then just quits with an error about disk full. The disk is not full.

Any ideas? I am currently encoding it again, this time with H.263, and it's been working for just over an hour, with 6 horus left. I've tried DV, MJPEG, h.264, and several others. I just want a finished product that I can divide up and encode to MPG2, so I can make a DVD with the files. I only have 95 GB of space left, but a fully encoded h.263 looks like it will only be just under 5 gb, plus the audio.

The Premiere project is 2-1/2 hours long. Can a Quicktim MOV be that long? Does anybody know why am I getting these errors?

[guns1inger]

Why don't you encode to mpeg2 from the the premiere timeline, instead of needlessly re-encode the video multiple times and losing quality ?

Secongly, if you don't set the compression for quicktime and create an uncompressed quicktime file you will easily eat 95GB, and then some.

[Berkey]

My version of Premiere doesn't have MPG2 encoding. It's version 6. Just working with what I've got.

I'm not creating an uncompressed movie. Was using h.263 this time, and it just stopped/froze up this time. Got to about 600mb and stopped.

I guess I'm going to have to encode smaller files with it all. I've done it this way before, but I really didn't want to have to do it YET again. Sheesh. Why write software that will not do what it is touted to do?

[guns1inger]

Install the DebugMode frameserver and you can frameserve from premiere to CCE, ProCoder, Mainconcet, Tmpgenc

Personally, I have never found a version of Premiere I could trust to be stable and do as advertised.

[Berkey]

Hey cool deal, there. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[Berkey]

[s:ea2d7ea95c]Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

I export the timeline using the frame server, and when I go to TMPG, the product is a white screen.[/s:ea2d7ea95c]

[WinSpirit]

Nice tips guns1inger !
I never pay attention to this tool... I will try it for sure