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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      What version of Windows?

      I think you've already hit on the problem. It's not just that Windows Movie Maker won't open large files, the operating system won't let you make files larger than 2Gb. Can you find a Win 7 machine to export the animation with?

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      • bikerchrisB Offline
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        Thanks for chipping in Dave, much appreciated. I'm currently running Windows 7 64-bit (sorry, didn't mention that).

        It's strange because I have a friend who creates AVI's using After Effects, and he's had video sizes exceeding 6GB with no problem - moreover he can import them with ease into windows movie maker 😞

        I'm currently splitting up the model into scenes, ensuring they final AVI output does not exceed 2GB. If someone asked me to make a revision to the model right now, I would be very annoyed!

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
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          Maybe you need a different editor then. Movie Maker is old. 2Gb was the file size limit older versions of Windows had. I used Movie Maker on my old machine to work with video files but when I moved to the Win7 machine, I bought Camtasia for screen capture and it has a much nicer editor.

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          • bikerchrisB Offline
            bikerchris
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            Thanks for that Dave, I'll check Camtasia out. It is frustrating that my colleague with virtually the same spec machine as me, can import 6GB AVI files into Movie Maker.

            I'm surprised if I'm the only one that finds this a bit annoying - having spent quite a while making a nice scene based animation in Sketchup, I'm unable to show anyone unless they also have sketchup 😞

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
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              Maybe he has a newer version of Movie Maker? I don't know what would be the cause of the difference otherwise.

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              • bikerchrisB Offline
                bikerchris
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                I'm going to ring him now to find out any spec differences. He's a friend though and when I built mine, he pretty much copied my rig!

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                • bikerchrisB Offline
                  bikerchris
                  last edited by

                  He didn't respond.

                  Incidentally, I've now found that Windows Movie Maker has a Sketchup AVI specific limit of 1GB 😞

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
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                    Hmmmm...

                    Get Camtasia.

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                    • bikerchrisB Offline
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                      May have no choice - do you have the Β£220 studio version?

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
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                        I have Camatasia Studio version 8. I didn't want to spend the money but it was well worth it in the end. The quality of the videos and the ability to do some nice editing stuff made a big difference for me.

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                        • bikerchrisB Offline
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                          Thanks Dave, much appreciated. I've deduced that I have a problem with the sketchup install. I don't know whether a plugin is effecting it, but it's making any AVI output files that exceed 1GB, completely unusable. Also, if I try to make just one AVI output file of all the scenes, sketchup appears to be creating the slides, and then gets to the end and produces NO FILE. I have even found that if I cancel the process part way through, the file DOES appear.

                          I'm quite annoyed to put it mildly.

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
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                            Did you try disabling plugins to make sure it isn't a problem caused by one of them? If that doesn't change anything, try reinstalling SketchUp from a fresh download.

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                            • bikerchrisB Offline
                              bikerchris
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                              I have disabled all plugins apart from Twilight. Next up seems to be to re-install 😞

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                              • Dave RD Offline
                                Dave R
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                                Do you need Twilight running?

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                                • bikerchrisB Offline
                                  bikerchris
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi all,

                                  Quick and easy question, what experiences have you had with AVI file sizes and what's the biggest you've been able to create.

                                  Also, have you ever had the slide creation process occur without issue, only to find that at the end of it, you are not provided with an AVI file OR error messages?

                                  Thanks!

                                  Chris

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-29-07.png

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-31-55.png

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-39-31.png

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-40-18.png

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-40-53.png

                                  http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-41-02.png

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                                  • bikerchrisB Offline
                                    bikerchris
                                    last edited by

                                    I disabled it, restarted sketchup, same result 😞

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-29-07.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-31-55.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-39-31.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-40-18.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-40-53.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-41-02.png

                                    http://www.bikerchris.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/sketchup-no-animation-file/screenshot-2014-02-06-18-41-21.png

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                                    • bikerchrisB Offline
                                      bikerchris
                                      last edited by

                                      I've also now restarted the PC and still the same thing occurs. πŸ˜•

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                                      • cottyC Offline
                                        cotty
                                        last edited by

                                        With Windows file system Fat32, the maximum file size for a single file is 4GB and your pictures show that you crossed this border...

                                        my SketchUp gallery

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                                        • cottyC Offline
                                          cotty
                                          last edited by

                                          Answer in your new topic ❓

                                          my SketchUp gallery

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                                          • bikerchrisB Offline
                                            bikerchris
                                            last edited by

                                            Quite right, I'm using NTFS though, and have had other single file types with sizes exceeding 20GB and over.

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