Trim/Collection Filesize Options Error

[hospadam]

Well, just a few questions.

Is your initial footage what is 4 gigs (and you're trying to trim/resize it)?

Or, is your initial footage larger, and you're trying to trim it to a size still over 4 gigs?

The first thing that comes to mind is that you might be using a FAT32 formatted hard drive. If your drive is formatted using FAT32, then the file system can't handle a single file over 4 gigs. Possibly you have your footage on an external drive (non-fat32), and you're trying to resize it to a fat32 drive?

If none of that made sense, then sorry.

Just let us know which file is 4gigs+

[Mylenium]

Premiere has a feature inside its project manager called "Trim & Collect Project" which takes all the footage,trims & moves it into a folder helping to reduce project size.

Let's say you have a 40 sec .mov file in your timeline and you only used 10sec in your edit. Premiere will trim that footage when you collect the files to compress what you are working with.

How does After Effects do this with larger then 4GB files?

I have attempted to use the reduce footage, trim project, and then collect files, but everytime I get to a few bits of footage that are over 4GB and the operation fails...

Any ideas???

Like Adam said - your file system is the culprit. Working with FAT 32 is completely inadequate for this kind of file sizes. Premiere dynamically chops up files and works with its cache system in palce of the source files so you never notice this, but AE does not. Either you invert your workflow logic, working with less chunky files from the beginning and then assembling larger pieces in AE if need be, or you bite the bitter apple and either reformat your disk or find a tool that can convert partitions from different formats like e.g. Norton Ghost, Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director.

Mylenium

[mattregnier]

All drives are NTFS. It seems to be a limitation of the software, not the OS, because premiere has no problem collecting files over the 4gb limit.

To answer a previous question, yes the media files are still over 4GB after trimming. We work in uncompressed HD so our files are very, very large.

Any other ideas?

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