Redline renders failing at 2GB across network?

[Simon Blackledge]

Hi all,
Weird but finally tracked it down.

So, Render out of Clipfinder and set destination to a folder on the server.
(files coming from server also)

Render QT. Always fails at 2GB exact

Render QT to local raid and all is good :-/ hmm..

Just to clarify.. the QT's are there when render finishes. Just only 2GB exactly.. therefore short.

Cheers

Si

[Simon Blackledge]

Ok so rendering to DPX is fine.

So it's a 2GB QT file limit? on a mac? eh?

Anyone?

s

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Yes. This is a known problem with REDline and Quicktime: you cannot render files larger than 2GB to a network volume. Rendering to a local disk works fine.

Cheers,
Hans

[Simon Blackledge]

Thanks Hans.

How does one render qt's using redline and a renderfarm then ? :-/

Anyone know if Red are looking at this?

Cheers

Si

[Hans-Georg Daun]

With Clipfinder's distributed rendering (explained in the "What's new in Clipfinder 2.2" section in the integrated help pages (CMD-?)) you can render to a local disk.

RED are aware of the problem and claim that the problem is in Quicktime.

Cheers,
Hans