Magix split my file at ~2GB export

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:57 pm

Every time I export a file >2GB from Magix, it gets divided in two.

I join them together with vdub... but it's just... annoying.

Am I missing an export option here?

thanks.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:58 pm

i believe i heard magix splits at 2gb by default. i'm unaware if there's an option to turn it off

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:14 pm

yeah, and it makes sense to make it default for compatibility with different systems.
...but.... annoyance

maybe I'm just hoping

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:00 pm

if you export as an uncompressed AVI (mind you, completely uncompressed - meaning no Huffyuv or Lagarith codecs used) or as a DV-AVI, I beleive that this breaks the 2 gig limit... but then you'd have to then compress it in VDubMod or whatever afterwards, so pick your poison..

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:01 pm

I seem to recall being able to turn it off, but I must be mistaken. I hadn't had that problem with Movie Edit Pro 11, but maybe I just haven't had a need for an export over 2GB considering how short most of my videos are. I tried an export of 2.5gb and it split it. So I guess that's that. Appending in Vdub is the only way as it stands.

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:24 pm

808-buma wrote:meaning no Huffyuv or Lagarith codecs used

I actually am using Lagarith, with a < 3min video, but I won't tell you why it's breaks the 2GB limit... It's a secret.

Ileia wrote:Appending in Vdub is the only way as it stands.

Damn, I was getting the feeling that was the case.

...unless anyone else knows

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:34 pm

808-buma wrote:but then you'd have to then compress it in VDubMod or whatever afterwards, so pick your poison..

He'd have to compress it in VDub afterwards anyway, if he's exporting it as Lagarith.

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:03 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:
808-buma wrote:but then you'd have to then compress it in VDubMod or whatever afterwards, so pick your poison..
He'd have to compress it in VDub afterwards anyway, if he's exporting it as Lagarith.

I think that my initial post was sort of unclear. As it's not mentioned what the OP's final output codec / container would be, my suggestion to take it into VDubMod and compress it to Huffy / Lags was only to save space on the HD, not as a means for the final output.

hope this wasn't lost in the confusion...

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:08 pm

808-buma wrote:hope this wasn't lost in the confusion...

...naw, it's all good.

I have experimented with DV-AVI export in the past, but I've never used it as my "master final." If you're telling me that DV goes beyond the 2gig limit, that may get rid of the annoying file splitting, but I'm just kind of wondering if it is good for recompression [is DV usually interlaced?]

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:16 pm

I believe that DV-AVI has an upper limit of 4gigs... although I haven't played with it. I don't know on your second question about if it's interlaced or no...