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1. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
John T Smith May 14, 2011 7:53 AM (in response to digiday)Depending on your hard drive size, P6 may be confused... since drives were not as large when it was written
For Win7 64bit Pro or Ultimate (or Enterprise?) this is ONE example of using Virtual XP http://forums.adobe.com/thread/702693?tstart=0
This is saved from an OLD message that may help
File size limits by disk format type
Fat = 2 Gig maximum file size
Fat32 = 4 Gig
NTFS = ?Terrabytes?Message saved from Premiere forum
John Acocks - 07:52am Apr 17, 2003 Pacific
I am unable to complete captures because I get a message
that says "capture stopped because disk was full." What
does this mean?Daniel Conklin - 08:02am Apr 17, 2003 Pacific (#1 of 2)
If you are using a Pinnacle card, a possible solution to
this is to right click on the recycle bin, and set the
percentage on your media drive to less than 2%.There a several other possible causes as well, but you
need to supply some info about your system. How are you
capturing and what format is your video? How big is
your hard drive?Jeff Schell - 09:57am Apr 17, 2003 Pacific (#2 of 2)
this is one of my favorite error messages. Basically,
you've chosen an incorrect setting in your DV settings.
(Odds are you have DV settings). If so, read on:1. The DV format is very rigid. Meaning that if you
make changes to the format, it cannot export as
requested, because your movie file must match every
single spec exactly.
2. When Premiere goes to export a project, the DV codec
says "Whoa. I can't do anything, because the settings
don't match."
3. Then Premiere comes back to you and has to report an
error. (Don't shoot the messenger). Unfortunately,
Premiere doesn't know why it wasn't able to export a
movie. So it says to you, "Um... I can't make the movie.
Um... maybe your hard drives are full?"It's a complete guess. And has nothing to do with your harddrives.
Check your project settings and/or your export settings. Make
sure you have chosen one of the "presets" that will specify
every correct setting for you. Make sure it is one of the DV
presets, if you are using DV video, or make sure it is one of
the presets supplied by your capture card manufacturer (in this
case I'm going to guess Pinnacle or Matrox.)To choose a preset, go to Project > Settings Viewer, and then
click on the project settings column, and then click 'load' to
load a correct preset. Do the same with export settings. -
2. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
Bill Hunt May 14, 2011 8:58 AM (in response to digiday)but my hard drive is not nearly full, with over 30 gigs left open on it.
Well, 30 GB is just about enough for Pr to run. If you have dynamically managed Virtual Memory (Page File), then it is probably not enough.
When you are checking Properties, it is likely that a dynamically managed Page File has shrunk, but expands, when you are busy editing.
I would clean up your HDD space, defragment often, and test.
Good luck,
Hunt
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3. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
digiday May 14, 2011 11:29 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)Hi Bill and John,
Thanks for your replies.
The error message is erroneous since I was able to save the same video with a different codec without getting the error message... that was what fixed the problem before and I didn't know it... this time I was able to equate it with the successful saving.
But then I got horizontal interlaced lines from a 4 gigabyte file for 7 minutes of video that took and hour and a half to render on a 2 GHZ machine with 50 gigs open on a 160 gig hard drive... the problem isn't the machine, it is how Premiere deals with saving.
For the extended explanation, see this other link about the interlaced lines that appeared in my final video...
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3677822#3677822
Once I was able to save correctly, then Premiere 6 gave me another 4 gig file that played one frame per second... nice.
Thanks,
digi
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4. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
Bill Hunt May 14, 2011 11:53 AM (in response to digiday)The error message is erroneous since I was able to save the same video with a different codec without getting the error message.
Perhaps, if the resultant file size was identical, or larger, than the one, that gave you issues. Otherwise, it would "apples to oranges."
Since you did not complete the first Export, you can only go on the "estimated file size," but how did that compare to the successful one? A Bit-Rate change can have a major impact of resultant file sizes.
Good luck,
Hunt
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5. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
digiday May 14, 2011 12:02 PM (in response to Bill Hunt)Hi Bill,
Both attempts, the one with the erroneous error message and the successful save that resulted in a file that played one frame per second in spite of a 30 fps setting, were both from the same base file... apples and apples.
How would I know what the file size is from a saving attempt that never completed and was stopped by the error message in question ??
Thanks,
digi
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6. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
Ann Bens May 14, 2011 12:11 PM (in response to digiday)The temp files are writen to C drive.
How much space is left on the C drive?
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7. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
digiday May 14, 2011 12:15 PM (in response to Ann Bens)50 gigs.
Problem was solved when using a different codec.
Thanks,
digi
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8. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
digiday May 14, 2011 4:29 PM (in response to digiday)Problem was the it was an erroneous message and the file saved with a different codec... but Bill gives some good advice about keeping lots of hard drive space open (30 gigs!)... but I have auto defragment that runs once a week.
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9. Re: Why is Premiere 6 giving a "Error writing file (disk full?)" message?
John T Smith May 14, 2011 7:29 PM (in response to digiday)>erroneous message and the file saved with a different codec
Which is basically what the message I saved from 2003 said (in different words) in that the P6 error message was due to a settings problem, and P6 came back with an error message that was not the real problem
Change the settings... or, in your case the codec, and the problem went away


