4GB Limit with NTFS

[Knocka]

I am capturing from VHS using a Radeon AIW 8500DV. I have XP Pro SP1 and a dedicated 80 GB Maxtor drive formatted in NTFS. I use Adobe Premier 6.5.

For some reason, captures stop at 4 GB. Does anyone know why? I understand that this limitation exists with a FAT 32 file system, but I thought since my drive is NTFS I would not have that issue. Is there a setting in Premier, or somewhere else, that is causing the captures to stop at 4 GB? (I tried capturing to a differnet drive, also formatted in NTFS, with the same result).

Thanks.

[Greg12]

their may be a switch in Premiere that has been set to break every 4 gigs.

[musher70]

SP1 sucks, cant uninstall it,try to reformat ur drive,
and everything will be ok

[BJ_M]

there is no "switch" in premiere .. try using another capture app or use a different codec w/ premiere .....

[Knocka]

I was able to join 2 4GB files and create an 8GB file. Does this shed any light on my problem? It seems that XP and my drive, which is NTFS, will allow files larger than 4GB. So why would Premier stop a capture at 4GB? This is weird.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Have you checked for an XP update for Premiere?The version your using was probably written for use on Win9x.

[furball6969]

Does this shed any light on the subject?

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/100d2.htm

It says there is a 4GB limit in AVI capture only when running FAT32 on XP.

[BJ_M]

he says he is using ntfs -- but i myself have seen problems with all versions of premiere on large captures on ntfs drives ...

[rayne]

FWIW: I capture using a hollywood bridge, win2000 (sp3), adobe premiere 6.5 and have captured a 32 gig file. I do have the ligos plugin installed, but don't think that affects capturing limit. Try defragging your hard drive. Also, make sure, if possible, that premiere's scratch drive is different than the capture drive.

[thxkid]

Well under my XP I use Uleads Media Studio Pro 6.02ve and I did one uncompressed video that ended up being 8.4 gigs and no problem so its not an XP problem per say, could be XP and adobe problem, I did have to go get 2 patches for Media Studio for XP from ulead.

[BJ_M]

ive captured up to 10tByte that i can recall (more on tranfers) , but the couple of times ive tried premiere for capture (more just goofing around as i wouldnt use premiere for capture anyway) , it would not do more than 4 gigs onto a raid ... and i had prob 10 - 20 tBytes still free on that system -- space isnt a problem .. adobe was ...

but like i said i dont really use it ...

[lpn1160]

cut the bullshit capture with virtualdub!

[Knocka]

When I try to capture with VD, I get artifacting, not smooth video. I would prefer it if I could get good captures.