File size limitation while importing from camera?

I just installed QuickTime 7 Pro and tried to import a movie from my video camera (mini DV).
It worked ok until it stopped with the pop up message like "file too large". That happened after 35 min of recording and 7.8 GB file size.
Is there really a limitation in file size?
thanks for feedback

Th DV quality is not as good as mp4 would be but it is a nice alternative.
If miniDV camcorder is recording in standard DV, then the Vidi captured quality should be the same as your source file on the camcorder. If camcorder is recoding in HDV and down-converting to DV for Vidi capture, then display dimensions would be reduce drastically. (In this case, you should capture the content using iMovie which will convert the HDV content to AIC while retaining the original dimensions and converting the audio to QT compatible audio.) The main difference between MPEG-4 and Device Native capture by QT 7 Pro is that the camcorder's DV content is transcoded to the MPEG-4 OR MPEG-4/AVC (H.264) compression format making the file much smaller. DV is an "editing" compression format while MPEG-4 is a "delivery" compression format. You can edit the DV files in QT 7 Pro or any other Apple or third-party video editor and then convert them to any QT compatible compression format for which your system is configured.

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