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Denovice
05-30-2006, 10:23 AM
This problem happens with Adobe Premiere as well which is why I think its a Quicktime error rather than an After Effects one.

I'm using Windows XP and basically when I export my animation as uncompressed video, whereupon the resulting filesize is in excess of 9gb, upon completion both Premiere and After Effects give me error messages and when I try to play the file it tells me its not a video file.
I'm aware of the old quicktime 2gb filesize limit but this hasn't this since been addressed?
beaker
05-30-2006, 05:18 PM
What codec? What version of premiere? What version of AE? What version of QT? What OS? What filesystem?
Denovice
05-31-2006, 07:57 AM
What codec? What version of premiere? What version of AE? What version of QT? What OS? What filesystem?

Uncompressed (none) / Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 7 / Quicktime 7.0.4 / WindowsXP
beaker
05-31-2006, 04:38 PM
you forgot the most important, what filesystem? Fat32 only supports files up to 4 gig.
Denovice
06-01-2006, 08:01 AM
you forgot the most important, what filesystem? Fat32 only supports files up to 4 gig.

It's NTFS.
AVI's in excess of 9gb can be created without problem or error but due to the nature in which AVI's work, we're using MOV's.
Kargokultti
06-01-2006, 08:47 AM
I have no constructive input as I don't work with files of that size. Is that film-rez you're working with? This might be a stupid idea, but maybe you could render the stuff out in shorter clips? (Managing them'd probably be a pain, though.)
Denovice
06-01-2006, 08:56 AM
I have no constructive input as I don't work with files of that size. Is that film-rez you're working with? This might be a stupid idea, but maybe you could render the stuff out in shorter clips? (Managing them'd probably be a pain, though.)

Unfortunately it has to be one big file as it'll be mastered to both the web and DVD eventually.
We originally used AVI's but in scenes where there's big blocks of pixels being moved around (for example, panning across a city or down a skyscraper) the playback stutters badly. MOV's on the other hand handle this without problem but with the downside that large files can't be written at present.
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