Data Cartridge is being eaten up

[Steve Gochenaur]

I am trying to encode a 210 gig Erdas image at 20:1. It will be an end product with 9.9 gig Mr.Sid It was 76% complete and it bailed on me. I got a message saying internal error SOAP. Also a message came up and said failed to encode Image out of memeory. I am outputing the mrsid to a 500 gig harddrive with 250 gigs left on it. Our IT guys say i am consuming all of our data cartridge and thats a bad thing. Should I try and make the file smaller, say 30:1. Will that ease up on the data cartridge? Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do. [/img]

[rparker]

The data deducted from the cartridge is the "Input Image Size" or the RAW file size (width * height * number of bands * bits per sample). Therefore, changing the compression ratio will have no effect on the data cartridge charge.

Hopefully you have 2 GB of RAM available, but there are things you can do to lower memory usage:

In More Encode Options > Advanced, lower your strip height (even as low as 2). You can also lower your block size (perhaps to 32).

I hope that helps. Please contact support for more -.