I know this might not belong here. but...Hi, Am editing an hour long video for a friend with premiere 3. I am normally able to export my projects as AVI files with no problem. The thing is is that usually they are only 15 min at max but this is an hour long vid. I tried saving it to an external drive as I normally do that had 79 gigs of free space. It would stop 10 min into export and say "export error, no free space on drive." or whatever. I decided to just save it to the main internal hard drive in my comp. the only problem was I only had about half as many free gigs on it than needed to save the hour long vid. so I chopped the project in half and saved the first half as an AVI to the internal HD. when it finished my plan was to copy it over to the external drive, delete the file on the internal, so I had room, and repeat with the second half of the video.After the first half completed exporting, I tried to play it and it said it was a damaged AVI file and offered to play anyways (which doesn't work) cancel, or try to repair it. It mentions trying to repare it could take along time.My main concern is not this vid as much as another I will be finishing soon which will be almost 2 hours.I wanted to know if anyone could give me some ideas or advise as to why I am having these issues and what other options for saving I might have. preferably AVI.Thanks!EXIF data available. Clickhereto show/hide.Camera-Specific Properties:Camera SoftwareWindows Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0Image-Specific Properties:Image CreatedSun Mar 30 22:12:40 2008
Thanks! I actually have a post there already. someone just told me to get a bigger hard drive but if he would have read what I wrote he would have seen space really isn't the issue here.
You can't correctly export to hard drives in most situations, and second you do realize you know almost nothing about video exporting, yet you agree to edit an hour long footage for a friend?>>preferably AVI.This line gives it away. AVI is a container, just a name, and nothing else. It's what compression you use inside that AVI that really matters. What compression are you using?
No really sure, just the standard settings when you export a movie in Premier 3. I know it would come to about 12 gigs or so.
And what else would you export to if not a hard drive?
>>240626What 'standard' settings do you have? Check them.>>240629Sorry, I meant to say not an external hard drive, use a local. Depending on the formatting of your external, it is most likely that files above 4gb can't be made (FAT32 formatting)
I looked around And it doesn't really seem to give much option for exporting as far a AVI files.compressor: DV NTSCColor depth: Millions of colorsFrame rate: 29.97 fps.Thats really the depth of it.are you familiar with Adobe Premier elements 3? just go in and drop in a file and click export movie and don't change any settings and that is what I did.Also, I tried saving on the internal but when it finished, it said the file was damaged.I have transfered large video files, one being 10 gigs back and fourth from this external before so I know it is not limiting to below 4.what do you think?
>>240609http://www.videouniversity.com/photoVid2.htmlread this for understanding DV NTSC
>>240643I really don't understand why OP would need that link, I doubt he'll suddenly be able to export when he understands.>>240638You never said you were using Elements, and 'defaults' aren't always the same. Have you tried exporting a small clip and seeing if that works? Have you tried other video players?
>>240657the fact that DV and NTSC have different pixel ratios and the operating system might not be able to read round pixel format,could be the cause of the corrupt file syndrome.
>>240660Eh, you seem to be misunderstanding something as well. DV doesn't *have* a PAR, it's just a way to store footage. The stored footage can be anything depending on your settings in-camera, 16:9, using PAL or NSTC equipment, etc.
your external drive is FAT or FAT32, which has a file size limit of 4gb per file.DV-AVI is about 4 gigs per hour.reformat as NTFS.no worries, fishprod.
>>240657Yes, I have exported several small 20 AVI vids to the external AND internal with no problems. It just must be because the size I guess?>>240660Like I said many other shorter vids export just fine.>>240694How do I change the settings?Thanks for all the advice guys!! MOAR!!!