99 tracks? What is a track? Where is my 3 - 7 track?

[meshuken]

VS 10+

Does the "99" clips limit count just the clips in the Video track?

What if you have 50 clips in the video track and 60 in the overlay video track? Are you still limited to 99 total or would this comonation work?

Does a JPG count as one of the 99 tracks? How about a wav in the sound track?

And lastly, I have VS 10+ - it said that there should be 7 video tracks, but I only see two, the video track and the overlay track. What am I missing?

[heinz-oz]

You are confusing terms, a clip and a track or not the same. Your 50 video clips would still be on the same track.

I don't use VS 10+ and cannot advise you on that except that, maybe, you are looking at it in the wrong mode. Are you, by any chance, in the storyboard mode?

[nosnoop]

VS 10+
And lastly, I have VS 10+ - it said that there should be 7 video tracks, but I only see two, the video track and the overlay track. What am I missing?

Open the Overlay Track Manager to open a dialog box. In there, you can select which and how many overlay tracks to display. And yes, you can display all 6 overlay tracks + your video track together.

[meshuken]

Ok thanks guys.

So is there a limit on how many clips you can put in a track? Or is it more limited by how long each clip is (for example, could I put 200 short 5 second clips in a row and not have any problems?)

[Ron P.]

To answer your question, you are limited to 99 clips.


Ron P.

[wywso0]

I raised a similar query yesterday although in the context of the max. number of slides in a slide show (thread 76904 if I've understood it correctly). Rich2Putt suggested the work around below which I presume would work for a video as well as a slide show.

" If you are using VS10+ for Editing, you are limited to 99 clips per project. You can add as many pictures for a slide show as you want. Once you reach the 99 clip limit in a project, you render & create a vidoe file. Then start a new project, add the project that you just save as a video file & add it to the first clip of the new project & you'll have 98 more clips if you so choose to continue...etc........."


Seems a useful tip
Bill S

[daniel]

To answer your question, you are limited to 99 clips.


Ron P.

Ron, with all due respect I fear this is completely wrong.
I have been using hundreds of pictures ever since VS8 and never hit any limit. Maybe it's 999 you mean?

What is true is that you can't import more than 99 pics TOGETHER from the library to the time line. But you may add much more than 99.

I just made a project of 500+ by repeatedly adding the pictures supplied with VS10. Just to be sure...


.Edit: and after thta made one with 250+ videos, then got bored...


Edit2: What is true is you can't have more than 99 titles or chapters ON THE DVD.

[sjj1805]

Mythbusting.
I've never heard of a limit on the number of video clips you can insert onto the timeline and so just out of curiosity I did this:



I could have kept going but got bored.

[daniel]

I could have kept going but got bored.

So you're not only grumpy, you're also lazy....

[daniel]

And I just tried again, it's not 999 either. Not even 1024.
I made a project, saved it, reopened it and generated a MPG file, no hiccup.


But you get no picture because I'm bored, lazy and may become grumpy.

[sjj1805]

I could have kept going but got bored.

So you're not only grumpy, you're also lazy....

[Black Lab]

Edit2: What is true is you can't have more than 99 titles or chapters ON THE DVD.

From the VideoStudio Help File:

Represented as a video thumbnail in a submenu, each chapter is like a bookmark for a video clip. When viewers click on a chapter, the playback of the video will start from the selected chapter.

Notes:
You can create up to 99 chapters for a video clip.
If the Create menu option is not selected, you will be guided to the preview step immediately without creating any menus after clicking Next.
When you are creating a disc with only one VideoStudio project or one video clip, do not select Use first clip as introductory video if you want to create menus...

I couldn't find any mention of limiting the number of clips.

[daniel]

OK then I'm wrong, (all chant: once again! once more!) but I've been long pursuaded that the 99 titles / 99 chapters was a DVD book restriction.
I was not saying Ulead has something to do with this.

Anyway while I see the use of 99 chapters for slide shows, I'd like to watch a DVD with 99 titles.
Even with Tex Avery cartoons, that's a very long disc with a LOOOW bitrate. (oh wait, never mind, I'm ready to watch it...)

[Trevor Andrew]

confused you will be, I am

Trevor