Issues exporting 1 hour and and 55 minute quicktime
by thomas benton
on
Sep 14, 2009 at 7:47:19 pm
Greetings
I am trying to export a quicktime that is 01:55:00 :00 in length. every time i attempt to make the export, the final result shows up as a blank FCP file that will not open. these end products are usually between 450 and 530 MB in size.
Im not sure what i am doing wrong, but i need to export this .mov for archiving purposes.
does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks very much
Thomas.
Re: Issues exporting 1 hour and and 55 minute quicktime by thomas benton on Sep 15, 2009 at 12:16:18 am
Yes, I am on a standard mac pro tower, Dual core intel xeon. Processing speed of 2.66 GHZ
5 GB memory.
When i attempt to export one of the Quicktime files I use File>Export>quicktime movie file. I set the codec as DV NTSC 48kHZ anamorphic. I set the include for audio and video, Markers are set to chapter markers, Recomposes all frames is checked, make movie self contained is checked. After that i set to export in a folder on my RAID. is there any other information i could be forgetting?
thomas.
Re: Issues exporting 1 hour and and 55 minute quicktime by thomas benton on Sep 15, 2009 at 6:33:29 pm
John,
First , thanks for responding.
My RAID is 2.04 terabytes with 178.4 GB left for free space.
The RAID is Formatted For Mac OSX.
My Time line is Formatted for DV in the anamorphic aspect ratio.
Cheers
Thomas.
Re: Issues exporting 1 hour and and 55 minute quicktime by David Roth Weiss on Sep 15, 2009 at 6:46:08 pm
[thomas benton]"My RAID is 2.04 terabytes with 178.4 GB left for free space. "
Thomas,
You have just 8.9% free space remaining on your raid, which is most likely heavily fragmented, and you're trying to export a big to that free space too. No wonder you're having issues. Raids cannot operate efficiently or effectively with that little free space, period, end of story.
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Re: Issues exporting 1 hour and and 55 minute quicktime by John Fishback on Sep 15, 2009 at 7:00:42 pm
David is correct. Your drive is very full and that impairs performance. However, you can try a couple of things: First, run Disk Warrior to clean up your directories. On export, don't recompress frames - export using current settings. And, if you export a ref movie, it will be smaller than a self-contained movie.
There's a nice app online courtesy of Digital Heaven that calculates disk space taken for video of various flavors: http://www.videospaceonline.com/
John
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