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Postby Penny Dreadful » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:19 am

I've never made an AMV before so...I had no idea that this was a mistake...While loading clips onto the computer, a pop up informed me that the folder was full. This had happened once before and I had simply gone to the folder and cleaned out a bit of room. This time I did the same and BAM the majority of my clips were deleted without warning. It had taken me the better part of three days to get them all timed perfectly and...I do believe I stopped breathing for a while there...I quickly went to the recycle bin and took everything out. A couple of the clips restored themselves but some seem gone for good. I tried reloading the clips into the library but...nothing...Is there anything I can do to get them back and, more importantly, is there any way to clear out space without deleted key points of my AMV? I don't have the best software, I'm using Nero's movie maker. At this rate, I'm afraid I'm going to run out of room making the video, even after I do go to all the trouble of matching the clips back up the way they were.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:38 am

Norton Anitvirus and OS tweaking software like Tune-Up Utilities have an Undelete function to try restoring files you recently deleted, but it's not 100% safe. If the clips didn't restore from the recycle bin, there isn't much you can do other than make them again (yeah, it sucks. I've been throught that, with two months' work worth of fine-tuned animated partitions T_T)

As for clearing up space... well , first off don't delete your clips :wink:
Take any media you won't use (mp3s, downloaded AMVs, videos, pictures, whatever) and record them to CD-RW or DVD-RW so you can remove them from your hard drive. If you have a lot of text documents, they can be compressed to about 30% their original size with newer versions of compression programs (WinRAR is my personal favorite).

If you're exporting clips in Uncompressed AVI, you might consider changing to a lossless codec like HuffYUV or Lagarith, I reccomend the latter.

And if you can afford it, buy a new hard drive. How much space do you have total? In the beginning when my videos were simpler, I could do fine with 40GB, although currently my 120 are barely enough.

If you have lots of games installed and you don't intend to play them right now, you can back up the save files somewhere and uninstall them. The newer ones, particularly, take up a bitchload of space.


But how come the clips "Deleted themselves without warning"? maybe they just hadnt finished copying. Windows gets rid of uncomplete files when they don't finish copying for lack of space, in which case you couldn't restore the file, just copy it again.
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Postby Penny Dreadful » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:48 am

I'm using clips from a DVD. It won't upload any less than one episode at a time and only seems to want to put them in that one folder, which fills up after a while. Like I said, this is my first AMV and experience with any sort of movie-making software so, in all honesty, I didn't catch most of what you just said. I tried compressing the clips before but it only made a brand new compressed clip on top of the big-ass episode file from the DVD :roll: .

It was the fact that it deleted them without warning me that shocked me most. I'm used to getting a pop up that says "Files in use" or some such error warning when I'm deleteing something important. The bad thing was that I was joking about something like this happening...::sigh::...I don't have money to buy any software or a new hard drive. In fact, I just put in my notice at my part time job, so that's completely out of the question.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:20 am

Oh, you mean the vobs... I thought your exported clips had vanished... In that case, forget the compression thing.

Anyways, why do your FOLDERS have space limits? If your hard drive is running out of space that's one thing, but folder limits?

You can probably change the destination folder before you begin ripping the DVDs. What program are you using for that?
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Postby x_rex30 » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:28 am

I use external hard drives usb 2.0 and everything runs smoothly even avs files in Vegas and premiere. I say try getting an external hard drive. They are not that expensive.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:35 am

Depends on where you live. In Brazil, you might as well buy a new house for the same price.
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Postby Penny Dreadful » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:40 am

I thought about changing the folder but I'm afraid it would just do the same thing and then the program I'm using wouldn't pick up the files I left behind in the other folder. I'm using Nero. The movie maker rips the DVDs directly to the library and, apparently, to the "imported files folder" that fills up after several episodes or so.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:57 pm

Gepetto wrote:Depends on where you live. In Brazil, you might as well buy a new house for the same price.


Well then you have some more important things to worry about than hobbies.
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Postby reddragon_syndicate » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:05 pm

I believe if the files are deleted Nero will ask the user to locate the file if its been moved. So you should be able to relocate the file and Nero should just pick up where you originally left off. Im emphasizing should. I havnt personally tested that. Just take a random clip, make a project using the clip,save and close, move the clip, then open Nero again and see what happens.

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Postby Gepetto » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:30 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Gepetto wrote:Depends on where you live. In Brazil, you might as well buy a new house for the same price.


Well then you have some more important things to worry about than hobbies.


Don't we all? Computer components are expensive in most Latin American countries because we have to import most of them. The national production is insufficient to supply the market. On the other hand, we DO have all the soybeans we want :lol:

Just to clarify, I don't live in a jungle, I wear clothes and I do not own a pet gorilla.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:14 pm

So, wait, computer hardware isn't produced like virtually everything else in the world? (By third world works paid starvation wages)

We learn something new every day i guess. :lol:
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Postby Gepetto » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:09 pm

Things are produced like that when they aren't hogged by American and Japanese companies. Here's the drill: The U.S. give preferential treatment to Mexican slave labor over other third-world slave labor because of that agreement you have (I don't know the acronym in English and I don't intend to look for it). Japan just pwns China and the Asian Tigers because they already have a history and they're close by. So the rest of Latin America produces crap for the European Union. Except for Colombia, which is responsible for almost all of the cocaine in the galaxy.

What pisses me off is how people try to mask the situation by calling us "emerging countries" instead of "third-world countries". I ask you, what are we emerging from?

Anyways, it's not like I'm starving or anything. I have the same middle-class life down here as I had when I lived in the U.S. so I shouldn't complain at all. How did this discussion start again? Oh, buying hard drives. Talk about off-topic u_u
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Postby Gepetto » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:12 pm

Gepetto wrote:Things are produced like that when they aren't hogged by American and Japanese companies. Here's the drill: The U.S. give preferential treatment to Mexican slave labor over other third-world slave labor because of that agreement you have (I don't know the acronym in English and I don't intend to look for it). Japan just pwns China and the Asian Tigers because they already have a history and they're close by. So the rest of Latin America produces crap for the European Union. Except for Colombia, which is responsible for almost all of the cocaine in the galaxy.

What pisses me off is how people try to mask the situation by calling us "emerging countries" instead of "third-world countries". I ask you, what are we emerging from?

Anyways, it's not like I'm starving or anything. I have the same middle-class life down here as I had when I lived in the U.S. so I shouldn't complain at all. How did this discussion start again? Oh, buying hard drives. Talk about off-topic u_u


I started out typing "the rest of the third world" and then changed to "Latin America" without erasing the rest :oops:

I do know the continents (i think)... Is Oceania a kind of food? :shock:
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