HELP Anyone. 4 gig Quicktime limitation?

I've been trying to render a 9688 frame file out of Shake for use with FCP. (720x480) I'm using Quicktime and Apple None setting for the codec. (Trying to make a DVD and would rather apply the compression in DVDSPRO.)

When the files size exceeds 4 gig, the render continues to click away, but I notice the filesize of the written file drops from 4 gigs to 192 KB and never updates from there. This only accounts for a about 3300 frames.

Is there a 4 gig limitation for QT?

Is that way when exporting to QT from FCP, that there are a ton of files, each with the extension -av1, -av2, -av3, etc all the way up to 12. Including the .mov file which won't play without the other 12 (-avN) files in the same directory.?

Your help is much appreciated.



Jon Farhat
[jfi.net]

Visual Effects Supervisor - Second Unit Director

Your hard drive is not formatted Mac OS extended...it is most likely formatted Fat32 (which has a 2GB limit) or some other PC format. PC formats have file size limits, where the Mac formatting doesn't.

Format the drive MacOS extended and you won't have this problem.

Thank you Shane.
j