I didn't see the file path only the name of the still. Do you think the combination of the entire file pathname which includes the stills name might be the culprit. Like I said I didn't remove any illegal characters just 8 to 10 letters.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "bouke" <bouke@...> wrote:
>
> Did you see the entire file path lenght?
> Not sure why, but some software does not like long pathnames.
> (Some of that code is in my apps as well :-( )
>
> Bouke
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Moore" <bigfish@...>
> To: "Avid L2" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:19 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Moving Picture doesn't like long name?
>
>
> I've just lost half an hour of my life to moving pictures because I could
> not get a still to import. It wasn't more than 1300 pixels in the longest
> deminsion, RGB color and 8 bit. WTF. I finally discovered by chance that if
> I took about 8 regular letters out of the name it would import. I'm still
> banging my head on this one. I could import the still in avid but not
> through Moving Pictures all because the name I guess was too long. I didn't
> remove any illegal character just regular letters. I've never noticed this
> before but maybe that's caused problems in the past and I didn't know it.
> This is on a mac sndx 4.0.5. Sure curious what others think.
>
> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
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> Studio City, CA
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