Thursday, August 25, 2011

[Avid-L2] Re: Moving Picture doesn't like long name?

 

No they were just letters. But I do notice sometimes file names get some sort of numeric equivalent truncation but I think that happens more with Pan & Zoom.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "loso007" <loso007@...> wrote:
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> Just wondering. Did the filename contain any exotic characters like: + ? @ # * !
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@> wrote:
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> > 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.
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