On 3 Jan 1999 16:19:34 GMT, "Luis ORTEGA" wrote:

>Please excuse my ignorance on this issue.

We will try, somehow...... ;-)

>I thought that it was not possible to digitize clips that were larger than
>2 gigs, but are you saying that it is not possible to create a project in
>MSP or Premiere (using win 95) from a variety of small clips that when
>rendered to an avi file is larger than 2 gigs?

That is correct...

>How then do people create
>video projects of 10, 20 or more minutes that must obviously be larger in
>size than 2 gigs?

With the Spark mini-DV card, in the "early" days I used
Adaptec's DV-Deck to assemble AVI files one by one back
to tape (accurate at the end of a clip, but with a
1/4-second "slush" area at the clip beginning [I added
3 3/4-second good leader to allow for camcorder start-up
time and the "slush" area...]). This worked well enough,
but I was happy when Spark ver.2 software arrived - it
allowed seamless assembly of multiple AVI's on playback.
The time is approaching when smooth playback can be done
easily from the editing program timeline - without the
need to make AVI's first of the edited material. I have
successfully made 1-2 hour videos using the first two
methods, though... Software by various manufacturers
of video capture cards allow seamless playback of
multiple AVI's. Software is also offered that is
intended to allow timeline playback, but I have not
yet had success with this...