TMPGenc DV -output- 4 gig limit?

[flaninacupboard]

I'm currently running some DV AVI files through TMPGenc with several filters applied to feed into CCE. this includes things like colour correction noise reduction cropping resizing and IVTC. i am outputting the AVI using the Main Concept DV Codec, but after the file has reached 4 gigs no more is written. i am using win2k, and i know i'm using NTFS, my source files are 13gig a piece, but my output cuts itself off after four. anyone had this problem? is there a setting in TMPGenc i've missed?

[mikerios]

check you recycle bin settings. I found that TMPEGEnc was hitting a wall arounf 3.8Gb, and it took me a while to realize it was my recycle bin reserving space for deltion on the drive ( even though I had more space free ), I deletion of all files in recycle and resetting down to 3% did the fix. I too run Win2k with NTFS.

[BJ_M]

why not just frame serve using tmpgenc and vfapi to feed to cce ?

using the main concept dv codec introduces several artifacts and a color shift which you just tried to take out ..

[energy80s]

How is that possible? The whole idea of DV avi's is that you can edit back and forth without quality / picture loss. And I thought the Main Concept DV Codec was the best available.

[BJ_M]

How is that possible? The whole idea of DV avi's is that you can edit back and forth without quality / picture loss. And I thought the Main Concept DV Codec was the best available.

DV is a lossy format ... everytime you re-compress/re-render it you get some quality loss .

main concept may have a great mpeg encoder but thier DV codec is not so hot .. right now the sonic foundry codec is considered the best and also the canopus dv codec is very very good .

[energy80s]

Thanks for that. Must look out for the Canopus one.

[flaninacupboard]

well, i wanted to prepare the files on a slower machine, and do the mpeg coding on this machine, but it looks like i'll have to plug my other hard drive in and do all the work on this machine using a frameserver. ah well.

the canopus codec is freely available from the canopus website in the support section, but you do need to sign up to their forum type doo-dah.

Edit:
nope, it's in fact a "playback only" codec. which to my mind makes it a decoder, not a codec. which means it's rather badly labelled.

[mikerios]

BJ_M-

isn't the codec used in Sonic Foundry's Vegas 3 & 4 the main concept codec ?

[energy80s]

What is the Canopus DV codec called? I don't see one advertised on their website (apart from the free playback one). Is it part of another software package? Basically I want to be able to export in DV avi from VDub and TMPG. I already have Ulead VS6 for more complicated editing jobs.

[BJ_M]

BJ_M-

isn't the codec used in Sonic Foundry's Vegas 3 & 4 the main concept codec ?

not according to SoFo (the mpeg2 codec is MC though) -- plus if you do a 10 generation test .. there is a lot of diff..

[flaninacupboard]

for anyone interested, i did eventually find my problem, from the TMPGenc homepage, on a TMPGenc update
"Modified that the index after 4GB was broken when data rate output AVI file with high format (for example, uncompressed high resolution) by AVI output."
which obxiously i ran into long after i'm done with my video