Split a movie, possible?

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melopllmelopll
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hello, I need to store a movie into a hardrive that has been formated with FAT32. The file is 9GB and of course is too big for the format type. Is there a program that could split the file?

Thank you.

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    marcukmarcuk Posts: 4,442member
    what platform are you working on? Are you trying to split a movie on the mac HD to fit on a PC system?
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    melopllmelopll Posts: 5member
    The platform where the movie is located is a MAC and I'd like to transfer it into an extrenal hardrive which happened to formatted with FAT32 file system.

    Is there a way to split it?

    Thank You.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
    What is the video format of the file?
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    melopllmelopll Posts: 5member
    I believe the format is .mov but i am not sure.... I'll post back when i'll be in front of it.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    ricksbrainricksbrain Posts: 517member
    If it is a .mov, in Quicktime, you can trim the original, then do a Save As. Repeat this again to create as many movie "parts" as you want.



    You may need Quicktime Pro, not sure...
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    melopllmelopll Posts: 5member
    yes, confirmed, it's a .mov file...
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    mr. hmr. h Posts: 4,870member
    Since it's a .mov, you can use MPEG streamclip to split the file into smaller pieces. This does of course mean you won't be able to watch the whole thing all at once, you'll have to open each bit separately.



    If you have QT pro, you can overcome this, by creating the movie "bits", then opening each one in QT pro, copy and pasting them one after the other into a new movie, and then saving that movie as a "reference movie". You can then open the reference movie in QuickTime and watch the whole movie even though it's in pieces.



    Hope that made sense.



    P.S. Mac = Macintosh (a computer)

    MAC = Medium Access Control (part of a network stack)
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    melopllmelopll Posts: 5member
    Thank You for the MAC Mac clarification...



    I don't have QT pro so I guess i'll use the other program. Thank you.
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