This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MXF File Size Limit

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] MXF File Size Limit

It's just based on the hard drive size. As Dom points out, I did actually run in to this limitation when I went to consolidate a project to move it to a PC Avid. I started on a Mac Avid and created a 64Gig DNxHD file on that system (a transcode of an entire feature film for use as the source of a movie trailer)

All was fine until I tried to sneakernet the footage to a PC based Symphony. All of my Firewire drives that were Mac formatted wouldn't read on the PC and the one Firewire drive that I had that the PC would read wouldn't let me copy the 64gig MXF file onto it.

On Oct 1, 2013, at 7:01 PM, David Dodson <davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Well, the media drive it would be going to is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I'm not aware of any particular file size limitation for that. I think.

David

On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:56 PM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:

No, unless your file system limits you (i.e. FAT32's 4GB limit).

On 10/1/2013 7:43 PM, David Dodson wrote:
> If I want to transcode a 90-minute ProRes 4444 file to DNxHD 115, will I run into any sort of MXF file size limit that would prevent me from doing this?
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