how to extend project length

[bifer]

I have 7 parts of a movie I want to merge. But when I want to load them VS2018 tell me that it would exceed the maximum project length.

How can I extend this in the project settings?

[dewman]

If you are simply just putting them one after the other, why not just have the player software play them in order? I saw on a post sometime that VSP was giving an error about being longer than 10 hours. 10 hours is pretty long and I doubt that Corel would spend much RND in fixing VSP to handle videos of that length. If playing multiple videos one after the other won't work for you, Google free utilities that append videos together (you may have to go Linux to find one).

Advantages of having multiple videos instead of 1 ten hour video is transportation and storage. I have no idea what your finial rendering size would be, but i guess large. Having several smaller ones would make it easier to fit onto a DVD or Bluray disk. Other wise, you'll have to go with a larger thumb drive or external hard drive. Down sides to this would be that you need to 2 of whatever will hold your video, as you would/should want a backup. That will start getting expensive. And finally, you may have a problem playing a video of that size. Some players load the whole file in (or want to) to play them. Not a problem with a 4-8GB as lots of machine shave this amount of memory, but not a lot have 16-32+GB memory.

Hope my advice/experience/suggestion helps.

[lata]

Do you get any error messages?, there is a similar post here
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63538
Is this the same problem?

What version of Video Studio are you using?
What is the total length of your project?

[bifer]

First of all the reason.

I use the public domain movies on archive.org (this movie: https://archive.org/details/Virus_Fukkatsu_no_hi) and then put them on my streaming box. I don't want to handle with 7 mpeg files on a streaming box. This would be handled like 7 sperate movies.

Yes, I get an error message but far below the 10 hours limit. I don't know exactly when, but the total movie would be approx. 2h 35min long.

The error message is German. And as mentioned in my fist post it is VS 2018

[bifer]

ah I got the reason ... file 5 of 7 has some damage in the internal time information. When I open the file in a player it tell me it is over 11 hours long ...

But why would VS 2018 care about this information ... it should disregard it.

[bifer]

And actually I found a soluiton outside VideoStudio. With Windows commands only!


I open the command line and change into the path where the files are located. Then I execute:
copy /b file1.mpg + file2.mpg + file3.mpg + file4.mpg + file5.mpg + file6.mpg + file7.mpg merged-file-name.mpg

At least for the mpg files I have it works.