Strange "av.mov" files now appearing on every export

Something odd just started happening.. when I export a FCE movie (File>Export>QuickTimeMovie), I now get these strange files (FileName-av.mov, FileName-av.mov1, etc.).

This has never happened before and I can find nothing anywhere about these weird files. I did throw them away and tried to use Sorenson Squeeze and it would not compress the file without those additional files. Once I pulled them out of the trash, Squeeze worked fine!

What are these files? Where did they come from? How do I get my settings back to the way it was!

Thank you in advance!

2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Leopard

Posted on Feb 15, 2010 1:31 PM

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Feb 15, 2010 1:45 PM in response to Fred Light

How is the destination drive formatted? It should be "Mac OS Extended" (aka HFS+). If it is formatted as FAT 16 or FAT 32 (Windows format schemes), you'll have a 2gb or 4gb file size limit respectively and the export will be broken into small parts (-av1, -av2, etc).

-DH
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Feb 16, 2010 6:41 AM in response to Fred Light

My hard drive is formatted correctly... I've been using the same one for 2 years and it's fine. The settings are also correct as suggested.

One other thing I've noticed.... the "render" line on the timeline is yellow, which I've also never seen, but nothing I can do can make that go away... maybe that has something to do with it?
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