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2 gig limit?
Well I've been putting all the advice I have gathered here into practice on my first video project. It's an 18 minute long children's video. I'm using the cinepak codec at 100% (no compression). Trouble is that at the end of rendering it I am told I do not have enough free disk space (I made sure 17 gigs were free). The file is about 2.4 gig. Is this the 2 gig limit I keep hearing about? I thought the limit was only in the microsoft player side? Anyway since maintaining as high a quality as possible is my cheif objective. . . what suggestions would you all have? Would a different codec give better quality? Thanks for the help . . .
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I don't know about the codec (somebody else help here!), but sometimes Win98 spuriously reports low disk space. If you get that kind of message, ignore it.
If you're not getting that, my guess is it is the 2 gig limit. One way I've read of getting around it is breaking it up into several <2GB files and using AVI_IO to play them back in sequence. AVI_IO is available at <a href="http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/">http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/</a>. Download the trial version and see if that works for you.
Also -- Cinepak is good for CD-ROM and a lot of other things, but for full-fledged video you really should stick with something faster, smaller, and with higher quality like MJPEG. -
Thanks. I need a single file because it is being compressed again into a streaming video file for the web with another application. I'll try MJPEG again for when I do my final NTSC output copy. When I tried MJPEG earlier, everything turned out rather "blocky."Comment
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