Instead of Compressor went Quicktime conversion (still problems)

Hi,
Thanx for all the suggestions regarding compressor. I didn't even consider doing Quicktime conversion for my DVDSP2. I did this last night with a two pass knowing it would take along time. After about 9 hours with some 18 to go ( the piece is 78 minutes) I got two errors, one from my system and one from FCP. FCP simply said "Out of memory". And what I'm assuming was from my system with the yellow triangle and exclamation point. "Your startup disk is nearly full. You need to delete some files."
What I don't understand about these is that I had "video" as my destination. This is a drive within my firewire drive that I had earmarked for just video and it has 23GB of memory in it which should be enough for this piece. Am I wrong?
I know that the other internal drive that I have just for graphics such as video does have a lot on it. A 200GB drive, it only has about 5GB left of memory. Can anyone enlighten me or point me to some articles.
Thank you in advance,
John

Your system drive functions as a virtual memory device. When the software you are running requires more memory that the physical ram you have, the hard disk pages in and out of RAM as needed. Since your spec doesn't mention ram below, I don't know how much you have, but once it filled, overflow started to fill up your system drive. If that becomes full, the system itself could shut down.
You can think of the disk as a pantry and shelf space and RAM as the kitchen table and counter top. When you run out of space for food preparation, you can put stuff back in the pantry or put partially prepared recipes on shelves for later completion.
And please don't call disk space MEMORY - it is not memory. Memory is RAM. Disk space is storage. Also, I should mention that the efficiency of your hard drive drops off SIGNIFICANTLY once it gets over 90% full.
make sense?
Patrick

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