Transfering Video File

[bcard]

I am unabel to tranfer a video file off the C drive of my Tricaster Pro to a protable hard drive through firewire. States the file space is to small. the hard drive is 500 gig. The file I wish to move is 10 gig. Help please.

[creach]

I get this error quite often when I try to transfer any file larger than 2gig. This is a known feature of Windoze.

The solution is to render parts of the file and copy those parts. Or, re-render the file to a more compact file format (ie.: to NT25 from RTV...if you don't need stellar quality or alpha).

Good luck
Dan

[NVentive]

How is your portable HD formated?

[DStoneburner]

what is working well for me is to take my video on the editor timeline and then export to VCR pointing it directly at my external firewire drive. This has worked very well and seems to be the best solution, at least for us.
Also like in the post above, you might want to check the formatting of your external drive and make sure it is NTFS not Fat32.

David

[supportron5000]

FAT32 limits file size to around 2GB per file, regardless of the total HDD space, this is because FAT32 is an old file system but is compatible on both Mac and PC so that when you buy a drive it's good to go on any computer out of the box.

For PC it needs to be formatted to NTFS which can take any file size, this will of course format the drive so everything on it will be wiped clean. To do this you must open My Computer and right click on the drive then choose "Format", when the window pops up choose "NTFS" under File System. Capacity should probably read a few gigs below 500 (it's just how they advertise HDD, every one has a larger advertised capacity than what you actually get) and the Allocation Unit Size should be "4096". Go ahead and select Quick Format if you'd like, but I always think it's best to not check it and just leave it on overnight.

Afterwards you'll have a clean drive that can take any file size you can throw at it.

[Sledgehammer]

I believe you can type in a command to convert a fat32 to NTFS without formatting:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881