[MacDV] Exporting avi from iMovie

[Richard Gilmore]

This is a problem. I don't have the original source tape anymore. Premier on
the PC crashes when I try to export the whole 18GB and the Mac won't do it
either. The PC world must have it as an AVI one way or another. How am I
going to finish this project? They don't want quicktime anything. Would
Final Cut Pro or Express not have this limitation?

Richard 


On 27/9/05 12:38 PM, "rgb at ellerbach.com" <rgb at ellerbach.com> wrote:

> On Tue, September 27, 2005 10:32 am, Richard Gilmore said:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I¹ve got a project in iMovie about an hour and 10 minutes long with some
>> titles and some audio extracted and pasted over other clips and the sound
>> boosted to 150%. It¹s all fine in iMovie but I need to export/share it as
>> an
>> AVI file. In the ³share² export panel I select full quality no compression
>> and it exports with the .avi extension. This works fine for small clips
>> (2-3
>> minutes) but when I try to export the entire movie (about 15-18 GB)
> 
> AVI is a bad format for large movies (never intended to support them)
> because of the size limits imposed by the word length in the header. The
> last I heard the word-size was 32 bits which imposes a 4GB limit on the
> file.
> 
> Rich
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