Just when I was beginning to drool over how quickly Camera was rendering an animation, it up and died on me.

The error message was “System API function has returned an unexpected error number.  Library: QTUT Error ID: 47 Error number: -40”

I gave it a second try, and the same thing happened.

Any ideas what it might be?

Mac Intel / Mac OS X 10.4.11

QTUT:QuickTime Utility Routines
47 Cannot get movie from data fork. System error and file path given.

Check to make sure the path to the movie doesn’t have unusual characters in it like a folder with a ‘/’ in the name.
Yon

Black Box - 04 June 2008 12:23 PM

QTUT:QuickTime Utility Routines
47 Cannot get movie from data fork. System error and file path given.

Check to make sure the path to the movie doesn’t have unusual characters in it like a folder with a ‘/’ in the name.
Yon

Nope.  No unusual characters.  All letters and a hyphen.  Does a hyphen count as unusual?

Thinking file size might be an issue, I did a third time, this time using MPEG-4 compression.  That completed the whole animation.

The first two were uncompressed.  Could file sizes be an issue?  The incomplete movies were just a little over 2 GB when Camera stopped.  I’ve saved movies as large as 4 GB before, so I’m reasonably sure Mac OS X doesn’t have the 2 GB file limitation.

I’m afraid someone else will have to assist there.  I can only give you the definition of the error code in this case.  I haven’t run into the problem.  You might try a search on 2 GB.  I’ve read something recently about an error related to this.

Good luck,
Yon

dcrinnert - 04 June 2008 12:36 PM

The first two were uncompressed.  Could file sizes be an issue?  The incomplete movies were just a little over 2 GB when Camera stopped.  I’ve saved movies as large as 4 GB before, so I’m reasonably sure Mac OS X doesn’t have the 2 GB file limitation.

Hellooooo,

The OS doesn’t, but Camera does

You’ll need to do it in two halves and ‘stitch’ them together with Quicktime Pro. It’s a pain, but, let’s say, this particular pain won’t last forever

Best,
Ian

Ian - 05 June 2008 01:09 AM

It’s a pain, but, let’s say, this particular pain won’t last forever

I hear what you are saying, and I like it! (A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat...wink wink nudge nudge… say no more!)