[bfurtado]

I have a 120GB USB 2.0 HD that I use to transfer files between my Mac and PC. The drive has a 32GB FAT32 partition, but when I try to drag a 6.84GB DV file into the Hard Drive, it stops at 3.9GB and gives me an Error Code -36.
Smaller files move over fine

Any ideas?

Brian

[Powaqqatsi]

Maybe FAT limits the size per file to around 4GB ?

[bfurtado]

I created a video in iMovie and I need to convert it to a fairly high quality file that I can burn on my DVD+RW drive on my PC. I have all the software for it, but I am at a loss of what setting I should use within iMovie. Everything I try seems to be in low quality. Is there a way to create a DV movie file in a quality efficient enough to be under 4GB. I think you may be on to something regarding size of the file. I tried to export the iMovie project into a DV file directly onto the USB Drive, but it quit with about 3 minutes to go

Brian

[Eug Wanker]

The file size limit for FAT32 is 4294967294 bytes, which is 3.999999998 GB.

[Tsilou B.]

You don't need to compress the file to under 4GB. Just use a file splitter to split the file on the Mac (into two 3GB files, e.g.), copy the parts over to your PC's internal (hopefully) NTFS formatted disk (NTFS supports large files) and use another file splitter to join the files again. That's much easier than compressing the video somehow.

To split the file on your Mac, you can use MacHacha from

http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft...cha/index.html

Save the files in WinSplit format and use WinSplit from

http://www.aborange.com/products/winsplit.php

on your PC to rejoin the files.