Computer Editing: Breaking the Two-Gig Barrier

Has this ever happened to you? You're working on your latest epic video creation. You've planned it out thoroughly, made beautiful storyboards, shot your footage, captured great audio and applied all your editing skills to create the video of your dreams. There it sits on your computer screen - a timeline full of beautiful little edits, waiting to be rendered. You hit the Render button, and leave the room to make a sandwich, eagerly anticipating the final viewing of your masterpiece.

When you get back, there's a nasty little message waiting for you on your computer screen. It says your video has exceeded the 2-gigabyte (GB) limit, and your editing software stopped rendering at about nine minutes of finished footage. You can't believe your eyes. Despair, anguish and rage all set in simultaneously. What can you do to save your beautiful project?

Luckily, you're not the first person this has ever happened to, and there are a number of solutions to the problem. While one solution will take you back to before the drawing board, requiring a reinstall (and perhaps an upgrade) of your computer's operating system, there are some techniques you can use to finish that project as it stands. By the end of this article, you'll have the knowledge you need to break the 2GB barrier and create video projects that are limited only by the size of your imagi…

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