Splitting Game Recording Files.

arc@css · 19 Nov 2015 at 15:59

Hi,

Some of my ShadowPlay file sizes are too big to be transfered, e.g. to my memory stick. What methods are there for breaking them down into smaller files?

Ta.

Clav · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:21

What sizes are we talking about? Are they bigger than the keys total size? Or is the key Fat32 and so limiting the file size to 4GB?

7zip is free and can create split archives - http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/7-zip-split-archive.html

arc@css · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:25

Keys?

I'm using Windows 7 (need to change my signature), so isn't that NTFS?

I hadn't thought of 7zip; cheers, I'll check it out.

bledd · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:28

By keys he means USB stick / usb key..

If it's formatted as FAT32, then it won't allow filesizes over 4GB. You didn't answer his question, how big are these files?

Do you need them as a RAW files, what format are they?

Can you shrink them down with handbrake to MP4/MKV files? Or do you want them as they are.

7zip will split them into multiple smaller files, but might not be the best option, depending what you want to do.

Craig321 · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:31

7-zip as above.

Also, I think you can set a split size on ShadowPlay, so might be a good idea to do that for future? Only problem with that I suppose is re-joining which is more difficult with a video file compared to a zip.

arc@css · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:40

bledd. said:
By keys he means USB stick / usb key..

Thanks. Yes, I did wonder if that is what it means.

bledd. said:
If it's formatted as FAT32, then it won't allow filesizes over 4GB. You didn't answer his question, how big are these files?

Most of the ones I wanted to transfer are 4gb or under, so they are no problem, but there are about 7 or 8 files which range from 5-6gb to around 35gb.

bledd. said:
Do you need them as a RAW files, what format are they?

A vast majority of them are in MP4 format. I suppose it would be better, though not imperative, if they were left as is.

bledd. said:
Can you shrink them down with handbrake to MP4/MKV files? Or do you want them as they are.

I haven't tried splitting any of the files just yet. I'm sure it's not a particularly difficult exercise, though I don't believe I've ever done it before.

arc@css · 19 Nov 2015 at 16:42

Craig321 said:
Also, I think you can set a split size on ShadowPlay, so might be a good idea to do that for future? Only problem with that I suppose is re-joining which is more difficult with a video file compared to a zip.

Yeah, I did have it set up to automatically keep the files below the 4gb threshold, but thought it made more sense to keep the recording as one larger file. Now I know it's not always the best way.

arc@css · 19 Nov 2015 at 18:08

Okay, I've split one of the big files.

Do I need to use handbrake to convert to so it can be played / edited, as the file type now says .001?

Winrar or still 7zip?

Edit : I found this though it isn't free for full use :

http://download.cnet.com/001-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-75629237.html

Edit 2 : Using Format Factory. Job done.

Blackjack Davy · 20 Nov 2015 at 19:14

arc@css said:
Okay, I've split one of the big files.

Do I need to use handbrake to convert to so it can be played / edited, as the file type now says .001?

Winrar or still 7zip?

Thats just a file archive part no. it should be possible to extract a single file from the numbered archive file chunks certainly thats true for WinRar

Basically it sticks it into an archive, chopping the archive up into chunks as it goes which you distribute separately bring the chunks together at the other end run the archive tool and/or self-extractor and it'll extract an as-original single file from the archive

EYEREX · 21 Nov 2015 at 11:02

I edit my videos with VideoReDo which can then convert as well to any file format and shrink down if needed