Hi,

I have a four minute sequence on a Symphony Nitris version 1.01 which I've been asked to export as targa files.

Normally one of our editors would do this but I've been asked and I haven't done this before does anyone have any tips ?

As usual thanks in advance for any help.

I'm not at a system now... so the Help may be much more helpful to you for the exact steps...

but... Right click on the sequence icon and choose Export.  set your destination in the Save Dialogue box. 

then click the options button.

then there's this nice big window with a dropdown menu at the top.  click on that, and you should see something akin to Sequential Tiffs or something like that.  then you can choose the file format you want. 

hit save, then save again... and watch as it creates thousands of individual targa files.

Having problrms now with Targa sequence export. Symphony v 1.8.1. In a 1080p25 project, 1920x1080 Targa Export of sequential files.

Plenty of drive space, yet after 3868 frames it falls over consistently with the error: "Exception:std:exception, what: bad allocation."

Total amount at that point of about 21GB exported.

Any ideas why? Corrupt media? I tried exporting just the clip within which this failure occurs and that was happy.

Thanks

Seems to be a memory issue - bin/seq memory usage was 30%, after restart down to 7%, this time it exported 5656. Far cry from 15000 I need, but will have to divide sequence into parts.

Having divided sequence into parts (into separate folders) I was wondering if there is a way to force the sequential file numbering to pick up from where the previous one finished, rather than starting at 001 again?

I know I can do it in Photoshop but it freaks out seeing that many files in a folder, don't really want to do it 20 at a time.

Cheers

XP has it's own renaming function, here is how it works,

Create different folders for outputting first and second batches from Avid 

Then rename the Targas accordingly so that all the files are numerically and uniquely in sequence and merge into one folder.