My video is too large to produce

Oli12345

Newbie Joined: Mar 07, 2013 21:16 Messages: 6 Offline

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Mar 09, 2013 08:02

Hi,
I'm new to Powerdirector (and to video editing as well!) and I believe I'm doing something wrong here.
I have a large video, recorded on MiniDV. Total 4 hours after I cut together.
I want to show this on 65" large TV so I need the quality to be good. I was told by friend to use AVC H.264 but trying that i get the pop-up window saying "this kind of file is only supported to 4GB max"
I get this same messages with almost all the other formats as well.
Last night I managed to produce to .MOV file but the quality was crap and the .MOV file was 65GB !!!

Can anyone help, what am I doing wrong? I presume I might have to split the video to 3 or 4 parts, but then again...if 4 hours in .MOV is 65GB then 1 hour in good quality should be around 25GB so there is something I'm doing wrong here.

I'm under a lot of pressure here as I got bunch of friends breathing down my neck to see this video

Thanks in advantage...Oli

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dnoyeB

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Mar 05, 2013 15:40 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 08:04

What version do you have? How much RAM? Canon HFM301 (+wide angle lens)
Canon SD790IS
Nikon D3100
Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Oli12345

Newbie Joined: Mar 07, 2013 21:16 Messages: 6 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 08:08

Sorry, forgot to say that:

I have PowerDirector 11 ultimate and I have Inel Core I7 with 4GB of RAM (quite fast NetBook)

dnoyeB

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Mar 05, 2013 15:40 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 08:10

Have you tried mp4? Canon HFM301 (+wide angle lens)
Canon SD790IS
Nikon D3100
Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Oli12345

Newbie Joined: Mar 07, 2013 21:16 Messages: 6 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 08:41

Yes, then i get:

"This file is being produced on a FAT32 file system, which has a 4 GB size limitation for a single file."
(this is external USB drive) Now I'm thinking, should I try to format the drive to some other kind of file system?

Oli12345

Newbie Joined: Mar 07, 2013 21:16 Messages: 6 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 08:55

I'm going to re-format the drive to the NTFS file system. With the help of GOOGLE this might be the thing...will post in my result.

dnoyeB

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Mar 05, 2013 15:40 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 09, 2013 11:31

Yes, FAT can not support that large a file size. Might even google around for specific ways to format your drive to facilitate use of large files. But NTFS should be enough. Glad you finally got a sensible error message. Canon HFM301 (+wide angle lens)
Canon SD790IS
Nikon D3100
Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Eugen157

Senior Contributor Location: Palm Springs area, So.CA Joined: Dec 10, 2012 13:57 Messages: 662 Offline

Mar 11, 2013 14:43

A USB memory drive cannot be converted to NTFS. And the video is much to long for most media with the exception of a internal HD or a USB hard drive.

Eugene

DISREGARD, WRONG information, Sorry

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James1

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Mar 11, 2013 15:14

Hi Eugene,
I have a 64GB flashdrive and it is formatted to a NtFS file system so you are wrong in that case , I am on a 64Bit system tho'. I have transferred videos to a flashdrive to transport although it is not reocgnised as a DVD you can play the various files independently.
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Eugen157

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Mar 11, 2013 15:37

Well I stand corrected, the ones I have cannot.
Sorry about the misinformation.

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vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Mar 11, 2013 16:04

There are a couple of tricks to either formatting or converting USB flash drives to NTFS.

To format or convert the drive, the drive policy has to be set to "Better performance" in Device manager>Disc Drive>Properties.

This gives the format as NTFS option.

However, the file system has to be in FAT32 to convert, if it is FAT then the convert command does not work, returning "NTFS is not a valid file system".

Converting is useful if you do not want to destroy or copy the existing files on the drive.

Cheers
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Eugen157

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Mar 11, 2013 18:04

Adrian you solved a riddle for me, now I know why I was unable to do it.
Thanks

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Oli12345

Newbie Joined: Mar 07, 2013 21:16 Messages: 6 Offline

Mar 11, 2013 19:18

Hi Guy's

Problem solved and I thank you all for useful comments. Fast and easy when we can help each other out here

Final result: I had 500 GB USB 2.0 external drive. I formatted the drive with NTFS file system and my problems are down the drain :

I also formatted an old 8 GB flash drive with NTFS and same, no problem.

One more question guy's as you are the pro's...
My video is from MiniDV and of course I want the best result out of it. When I was rendering I chose Mpeg4 / 1920x1080 / 50p / 46000mps. and the quality was okay (of course not HD) but okay.
Question is, should i render in SVRT or "Intel quick sync Video" and does it make any difference to the quality?

Shall I use any other file format and/or resolution to get the best out of MiniDV?

Thanks in advantage... Óli

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Mar 11, 2013 19:37

Hi,
My suggestion is render at the same as the original of the recording was created in as sometimes you get artifacts showing up.
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Oli12345

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Mar 11, 2013 20:54

Ok, thanks Jim.
I will try that also to see the difference.

Óli