QT Pro, movie recording, 2 questions

I have QT Pro and a firewire camera.
I can make a movie recording, great !.
Now two questions
1] What is the maximum size of the movie (I want to make one recording of 24 hr)
2] Now the movie is saved to my desktop. Can i change the directory (external harddrive)
Thanks
Jitse

1) The native recording quality of your movie is 320x240 using the H.264 Codec. I have yet to hear of anyway to make it bigger, but you can change the codec to MPEG 4 if you wish in the preferences menu, but the size of the created movie file will still remain 320x240. Once the recording is done, you can always make the playback size bigger by using the view menu or simply dragging from the bottom right corner of the window - but this will not increase the quality at all.
2) Unless you are linking to it in a web page or other application (iMovie or Final Cut Pro), there is no problem moving the file to an external drive. If it is linked, you simply need to update the directory path in your linked applications or web-page.
Hope this helps

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