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Title: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 02:26:23 PM
I'm currently working on doing another aces high film.  Since the last update I have been trying to record films.  The films have been converting ok, but for some reason it stops converting part through and the last part plays on the film viewer window.  Has anyone else experienced this?
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 02:28:58 PM
And every now and then I get an "Add text" box appear?!
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: Skuzzy on February 02, 2014, 04:08:22 PM
Are you trying to use a CODEC to compress the AVI data or are you using uncompressed for the AVI output?  If you are using a CODEC, which CODEC are you trying to use?  There are only a few CODECS which can be used in an AVI file.

If you are uncompressed, be sure to check the "multi-file" option we added.
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 04:46:32 PM
Hi Skuzzy,

Codec is Cinepak by Radius
Currently trying to get about 11 seconds of footage.  I'm half way through making a film and this has just started,

Cheers,

Leonard
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 04:53:11 PM
And 1920*1280 at 30fps
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: Skuzzy on February 02, 2014, 04:58:21 PM
Try uncompressed and multi-file.
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 05:27:35 PM
Looks like it ran fine, uncompressed, although at a gig plus my PC is struggling, and at that size my finishing the next three minutes of film might be an issue!  Could the filmviewer be confused about reaching the file size limit?  Currently trying again with Cinepak but with multi file selected - see what happens.
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 05:58:08 PM
Just rerun the same with Cinepak and multifile selected and it just ran fine.  Cheers.
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: F77 on February 02, 2014, 06:00:37 PM
The result is two files - one at 73.9MB the second part is 42.2MB.
Title: Re: Film viewer - avi converter
Post by: Skuzzy on February 03, 2014, 06:52:47 AM
The 2GB data limit of the regular AVI format is why the film viewer will not attempt to send more than 2GB of data to a file.  There is no way for the viewer to know, after the fact, how much data actually got written to the file, so it stops after 2GB of data has been sent.