Star Wars: Renascent *** NOW AVAILABLE!!! *** — Page 15

adywan said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, it sounds like your drive is FAT32 - in order to change it, you need to reformat your hard drive, which means erasing everything.

no you don't have to do that. you can use a program like partition magic to change the formatting from FAT32 to NTFS without losing anything. All it does is change the file system so all your files aren't changed.

 

If you just need to convert fat32->ntfs there's a tool built into windows.

convert drive letter: /fs:ntfs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

mrbenja0618 said:

Hmm... I might need to try this... Now if I could fix my Maxtor drive.... Does anyone know why it keeps telling me to format when nothing is there? It keeps me from using it. Could Partition magic help this?

 

You may need to explain more clearly what the problem is...

Are you saying you can't access the drive and windows is asking you to format it? Then the drive and/or the partition table has been corrupted, and you may need to run some recovery software if you need data on that drive.

You could try and see if this can detect the partition on the drive.

Lol this thread is now tech-support?? ;)

mrbenja0618 said:

adywan said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, it sounds like your drive is FAT32 - in order to change it, you need to reformat your hard drive, which means erasing everything.

no you don't have to do that. you can use a program like partition magic to change the formatting from FAT32 to NTFS without losing anything. All it does is change the file system so all your files aren't changed.

 

Hmm... I might need to try this... Now if I could fix my Maxtor drive.... Does anyone know why it keeps telling me to format when nothing is there? It keeps me from using it. Could Partition magic help this?

 

Partition Magic should be able to help with that. Just select the drive and go to Convert and select NTFS and it'll repair the drive I think. I was playing around with it yesterday and what it does is create a temporary partition for the files, patch the rest and then removes the partition, merging the remaining files with the rest of the Hard Drive. It's pretty quick too. I'm gonna try rendering the movie again tonight and it should work this time. 

Haha no problem, it was on topic so it's all good.

YES! It's done and the last few minutes I didn't see only had one mistake in the fading of one name but it's in the credits. I'm going to just leave it due to two reasons:

1) It's in the credits

2) It took three days to render

The file is 4.44 GB so when I send it to ripplin, it should be able to fit on one regular DVD and then I'll put the 700mb one on a cd. Again, the raw file is for Ripplin and the lower quality one will be available for download. Do any of you guys know how to do DVD Menus or am I gonna have to do that myself? I think I'm gonna take a break on the DVD creation until the summer because I have exams coming up and then I'm gone for a 2 week trip to Ottawa. But when I get back I'll work on the DVD.

Thanks for everyone's help! And thanks ady for the HDD help! That was the problem and it works now. Ripplin I'll send it either this weekend or on monday by express.

Nice news, A-M! Glad it worked out well in the end.

Only send express if you can afford it, huh? It would only take a day or two regular post anyway. ;) Just stick 'em in a bubble envelope and they'll be fine.

DAMMIT! It's like 5 Mb over the limit to burn it to a standard DVD! Looks like I'll have to go out and get a DVD 9 to stick them both on. These are the corrections that will be made for the DVD:

-Two random frames before Luke Yells "Nooooo!"

-Two frames of black while Anakin is saying "She went into the club master"

- "George Lucas" doesn't fade out

-"Asteroid-Man" doesn't fade in

-The music selection list doesn't fade in

-Slight music bleed at one point in the AOTC Clone battle

These are just small mistakes that I'll go back and fix for the final version in December. Ripplin, let me know if you find any other mistakes. Worry not OT posters, these can easily be fixed. Right now I'm trying to convert it to 700 mb

Only 5 MB over? Ouch! Hopefully that is an easy fix, because the difference of having to use a DL to burn it instead of a SL will turn off a lot of people. :p (mostly because dLs are expensive, I would say, and it seems almost like a waste of a DL for 5 MB, know what I mean? Haha.) Well, you have lots of time to get to that.

Well we're not releasing the raw WMV file. That's just for me and you. The rest get the 700MB avi for now but in December, I'll go back, fix the mistakes, render it as MPEG and then put it in the DVD with menus. I can honestly say I've learned much with this project as it's my first time tackling something so big.

From what I've seen with DVD Architect, it looks like it works similar to a website. I have experience with that so that shouldn't be a problem.

The 700Mb one sometime this month. The final version in DVD quality and surround sound with the little frame mistakes fixed with a DVD menu will be available on the last friday of the year (Christmas 2009). First I have to get the DVD 9s though but right now I'm in a financial hole haha. I didn't get any shifts at work this week or last week and I have my cell phone bill left to pay. Once I do that I think I should be able to (unless the bill is really high cause of long distance calls). I'll let you guys know when I get the DVD-9s

Do other people accept donations? Is that legal? I don't know, I'll have to check with someone else on that but I think ady takes donations for his projects. I'll get back to you.

You want I should mail you a DVD-9? I just got a bunch today. You could even mail it back in the same package. :p

^You may have read something out of context. The raw file is for me to do a sort of quality control scan on, no more, no less. The 700 MB .avi is made from that file, so people will basically see the same thing anyway. The ultimate objective will always be the full DVD with menus near the end of the year.

I do think the donation thing is a little bit early to talk about as well. ;) If it becomes necessary, we'll see when the time comes. Probably won't even be necessary in the end.

Yeah, right now donations aren't needed. If you really wanted to know I could drop my paypal account for you.

Ripplin, would that be alright if you send me a DVD-9?

Yep, no problem. Just PM me your address.

New Opening Logo of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mndve3GStWQ

Looks pretty pro, A-M. :) Interesting logo.