HD is limiting my ISO file size. What can I do?

[BluegrassBoy]

Hello. Long time lurker. First time poster. Love the show forum..... (ahem)

 

I've had EMC10 for a couple of months now and have been using it (so far) just to create DVDs of home pictures and movies. I have been using MyDVD with some occasional VideoWave editing and have slowly been learning features to make better DVDs.

 

My problem is that I've been pretty much filling up a DVD with as much time/data as possible to keep the highest amount of quality - and I'm unable to save an ISO file of my project because I have a FAT32 hard drive which apparently has a file-size limit of some sort?

 

This is a mild inconvenience since to burn multiple DVDs of a project I basically have to recreate it (and it re-renders everything) each time.

 

Has anybody else hit this wall? Any suggestions other than limit the size of my projects? How big does a typical ISO file get?

 

Appreciate any help.

 

-BB

[grandpabruce]

Hello. Long time lurker. First time poster. Love the show forum..... (ahem)

 

I've had EMC10 for a couple of months now and have been using it (so far) just to create DVDs of home pictures and movies. I have been using MyDVD with some occasional VideoWave editing and have slowly been learning features to make better DVDs.

 

My problem is that I've been pretty much filling up a DVD with as much time/data as possible to keep the highest amount of quality - and I'm unable to save an ISO file of my project because I have a FAT32 hard drive which apparently has a file-size limit of some sort?

 

This is a mild inconvenience since to burn multiple DVDs of a project I basically have to recreate it (and it re-renders everything) each time.

 

Has anybody else hit this wall? Any suggestions other than limit the size of my projects? How big does a typical ISO file get?

 

Appreciate any help.

 

-BB

 

If you are making your production, with enough time to fill up a DVD, then your .iso file will be larger than 4GB, which is the maximum that FAT32 can have as a file size.

 

Convert your hard drive to NTFS.

[BluegrassBoy]

Thanks!

[Brendon]

BluegrassBoy,

 

If you don't mind converting your drive to NTFS, go with Bruce's suggestion. The alternative is burning to a folder, and then getting Copier to make an image from the folder. It takes a couple of minutes to make the image.

 

Copier will use the Sonic .GI format to make the disc image, slicing it into 2 GB chunks for your FAT32 system, and will later burn that image to disc.

 

I don't know why MyDVD won't offer .GIs since Copier does. Perhaps it's the mixture of Roxio and Sonic programs.

 

Brendon