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#1 msocon

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 12:36 PM

I have a video editing system that I am rendering a twenty minute video to a hard drive. It only lets me render up to 18 minutes and I have tried several times. When I am rendering the monitor shows that the entire 20 minutes is being rendered to a final avs file but when I play that file back it is short. Someone suggested that I need to change my hard drives fat 32 to ntfs. Not sure how to do that or if that would fix the problem. Any ideas?

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 12:42 PM

In Windows, right-click the hard drive (in 'Computer'), and click Properties. Is the hard drive FAT? (it says 'File System' there) Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881 FAT32 volumes limit you to a file size of 4GB I think.

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 01:41 PM

Hi and welcome to the forums. Maybe this will help: http://www.ehow.com/...ile-system.html

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 07:39 PM

LiveBrianD, on 28 December 2011 - 12:42 PM, said:

While it appears the command in the KB article should convert the drive format "nondestructively" (i.e. NOT nuke your data on the drive), I would still STRONGLY suggest you back up the drive before doing the conversion. Monkeying with drive formats and partitions have a habit of going wrong on occasion even if they are supposed to not touch your data.

And yes FAT32 does limit you to a 4 GB file.

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Posted 28 December 2011 - 08:47 PM

smax013, on 28 December 2011 - 07:39 PM, said:

You should also backup, come to think of it, if you're messing with the OS partitions (or anything on the drives you have files on). Heck, you should backup on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule just in case. I've heard that if you're saving a file larger than 4GB to a FAT32 partition it will just stop or something at the 4GB mark.

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