#PAR backup?
Kurt and others:
I STAND CORRECTED!
After hearing all those having problems it was pointed out that the problem
occurs after around frame 900. I did 5 animations at 900, 1000, 1500, 2000 and
2500 frames. This took most of the evening because as you know transfers are
slow. I just dropped them to my dos drive and back again using my usual
procedure. All 5 animations switched to black frames for the remainder at
frame #896 or 897 frames into the animation. BTW, I did this restore to a
freshly formated PAR drive and to a freshly defragged DOS drive. The number
896 appears to be significant and should be of some use to DPS is defining and
correcting this problem.
Fortunately, I do not have a problem here with backups because I have never had
to archive a "client" animation longer than 750 frames except for two. I guess
they are gone! The only time I do animation on the PAR longer than 900 frames
is for frame grabs and other similar temporary work not worth archiving. I do
recall restoring, last April, a file of 30 second animation and don't recall
any problems. I was using ver 1.25 at that time.
Solution/work around.: I will split all my future animations to less than 500
frames or so before exporting. Slight inconvenience but as I said I seldom
have to do this.
Alan and Martin, can you confirm this too?