render quits at 2 gigs

[ThomtheEditor]

hey guys, the computer i installed the rocket on would occasionally quit red rusing at 2 gigs, what causes this? it's doing the same thing with renders from rocketcine now as well; i was hoping this would be solved by now?

 

[Alexis Hanawalt]

How is the drive you're rendering to formatted? It might be a problem with FAT-32 being used on a mac.

 

[ThomtheEditor]

i did some research and found that it's still being limited to 2gigs across a network when rendering qt based material, i would just render to a local sata drive; but rocketcine seems to want to kick any drives off the sata card that are being used by other programs

 

[Charles Stewart Jr]

I actually was having the same problem. But instead of doing a batch I just did one and it rendered out to 2.5 GB. I also had a batch just render out 545MB. So it seems a bit glitchy. Not sure what the solution is.

 

[Deanan]

The two places where QT renders get limited to 2GB are Fat32 and AFP mounted volumes.

 

[Daniel Stonehouse]

I originally thought this was a problem with spanned clips or related to the source. But after some research it does depend on the destination volume being an afp mounted share.

Our studio setup is a central RAID shared over AFP. What is the reason for quicktime rendering to AFP shares being limited to 2gb? This seems to be a limitation specific to Red Rushes - final cut etc do not have this problem?

I'm sure there is a good reason for it just wondering what it is.

It's not really viable going from machine to machine manually setting off renders to local hard drives, and having to copy the files over afterwards.