You have exceeded the 10 hour limit. Please trim the project

[Andy3T]

Good afternoon/morning/evening.

I've just hit a problem I've not encountered before and I have not yet been able to find a solution on this excellent forum.

I'm editing some footage and the total timeline content amounts to a mere 24 minutes, or so. However, a 'flag' has now appeared stating "You have exceeded the 10 hour limit. Please trim the project" and the project time counter shows a total project time of 10.08.54.09.

I'm using VideoStudio Pro 9.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

[lata]

Hi Andy

Like you I have not seen that message before, there is another post here
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63536
I guess that may be the same issue.
Very Strange, I may escalate this to Corel

[dewman]

Look at my reply I made to the person wanting to put 7 long video files together. My suggestion to you is similar to my suggestion to him. Have several smaller files instead of one large file. In your case, make several smaller ones and play them in consecutive order.

Hope this helps.

[asik1]

Hi Andy

Like you I have not seen that message before, there is another post here
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63536
I guess that may be the same issue.
Very Strange, I may escalate this to Corel

Welcome back Trevor,
If you line up all your gazillion shots and images from your recent trip I'm sure you will need more than a mare 10 hours

[aljimenez]

Why bother Corel with making VS able to handle longer than 10 hour projects? How many users want or need this?

The message says projects must be less than 10 hours. That is not a bug.

There are so many other features that many multiple users want and need.

[asik1]

Why bother Corel with making VS able to handle longer than 10 hour projects? How many users want or need this?

The message says projects must be less than 10 hours. That is not a bug.

There are so many other features that many multiple users want and need.

????
How many users need FF template maker? and still 200 hours went that way.

[Ken Berry]

I'm editing some footage and the total timeline content amounts to a mere 24 minutes, or so. However, a 'flag' has now appeared stating "You have exceeded the 10 hour limit. Please trim the project" and the project time counter shows a total project time of 10.08.54.09.

Andy -- if you read that other post you will see that the user found that one or two clips returned erroneous time errors. Can you check with some program apart from VS what time your clips are. In Windows File Explorer you can hover your mouse over a clip and it will give the length in the info box which appears. Or you can use a program like Media Info. Normally that can be downloaded from https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download but that appears to be having some problems right now, at least for me. But you can also download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/ which is a safe source.

The only other thing I can think of is that somehow or other, something has been inserted into your project timeline at the 10.08.54.09 mark, though that seems highly unlikely unless you have at some time or other had loads of stuff in your timeline which you have largely deleted to cut the project back to 24 minutes. With your project, can you scrub the timeline well beyond the 24 minute apparent ending of the project? If so, then that would suggest something might be there well down the track. If not, scratch that idea!

[Davidk]

In terms of editing and then getting that length message, try this for a scenario . . .
- most clips assembled in timeline
- ripple editing NOT on
- text, voiceover or a music clip added and aligned to a clip near the end, ie way out there near 10 hours
- clips early in the time sequence have been edited or just deleted with no message.
- now a long clip is inserted near the start - and that takes the time out beyond 10 hrs because of those unmoved text/voiceover/music files, and the message appears. Note here that in this condition the time alignment of the text or voiceover items does not change (need ripple editing ON for that), and to find them as suggested you will need to scroll along the time line beyond your current end to find them. Compressing the timeline with the slider is one way of doing that reasonably easily

So, what was the last edit you did to get that message?

[lata]

Why bother Corel with making VS able to handle longer than 10 hour projects? How many users want or need this?

The message says projects must be less than 10 hours. That is not a bug.

There are so many other features that many multiple users want and need.

As far as I can tell the project or individual files are small and no where near 10 hours, yet the message shows.
It may be a file that VS sees as over 10 hours, the question is why?

[Andy3T]

I'm editing some footage and the total timeline content amounts to a mere 24 minutes, or so. However, a 'flag' has now appeared stating "You have exceeded the 10 hour limit. Please trim the project" and the project time counter shows a total project time of 10.08.54.09.

Andy -- if you read that other post you will see that the user found that one or two clips returned erroneous time errors. Can you check with some program apart from VS what time your clips are. In Windows File Explorer you can hover your mouse over a clip and it will give the length in the info box which appears. Or you can use a program like Media Info. Normally that can be downloaded from https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download but that appears to be having some problems right now, at least for me. But you can also download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/ which is a safe source.

The only other thing I can think of is that somehow or other, something has been inserted into your project timeline at the 10.08.54.09 mark, though that seems highly unlikely unless you have at some time or other had loads of stuff in your timeline which you have largely deleted to cut the project back to 24 minutes. With your project, can you scrub the timeline well beyond the 24 minute apparent ending of the project? If so, then that would suggest something might be there well down the track. If not, scratch that idea!

Thanks Ken,

I've been through all of your kind suggestions. There are no 'rogue' clips from my source material and your other thoughts have drawn a blank. Trevor was thinking about elevating the query to Corel (as is mentioned in this thread) and this may, I guess, be the only way forward.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Andy

[Andy3T]

Hi Andy

Like you I have not seen that message before, there is another post here
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63536
I guess that may be the same issue.
Very Strange, I may escalate this to Corel

Hi Trevor,

Thanks as always; I've tried suggestions from others so an escalation to Corel would be helpful and appreciated.

Regards

Andy

[asik1]

I just made a test by loading few hour long clips and indeed I hit the wall at 10 hours on VS19.2

[Andy3T]

In terms of editing and then getting that length message, try this for a scenario . . .
- most clips assembled in timeline
- ripple editing NOT on
- text, voiceover or a music clip added and aligned to a clip near the end, ie way out there near 10 hours
- clips early in the time sequence have been edited or just deleted with no message.
- now a long clip is inserted near the start - and that takes the time out beyond 10 hrs because of those unmoved text/voiceover/music files, and the message appears. Note here that in this condition the time alignment of the text or voiceover items does not change (need ripple editing ON for that), and to find them as suggested you will need to scroll along the time line beyond your current end to find them. Compressing the timeline with the slider is one way of doing that reasonably easily

So, what was the last edit you did to get that message?

Hi David,

Many thanks for your contribution. The scenario you describe doesn't really match and there is no content in any of the fields beyond the 24 minutes in the timeline.

I've also checked the lengths of the source video clips to check that there are no clips in use with false lengths.

The frustration continues but thanks again.

Andy

[lata]

Hi Andy
You say in your original post that a flag appeared, what were you doing at that time?
If it appeared immediately after inserting a clip then maybe the clip is being interpreted incorrectly.
If there is a suspect clip are you able to upload to a sharing site, we can download to test the file?
I had a reply from our Corel contact who is to ask the development team if that 10 hour limit can be removed without harm to the program?

[Andy3T]

Hi Andy
You say in your original post that a flag appeared, what were you doing at that time?
If it appeared immediately after inserting a clip then maybe the clip is being interpreted incorrectly.
If there is a suspect clip are you able to upload to a sharing site, we can download to test the file?
I had a reply from our Corel contact who is to ask the development team if that 10 hour limit can be removed without harm to the program?

Hi Trevor,

I'd just finished showing my wife the progress I was making on the edit, which we watched all through until the portion I was up to. I didn't add any further clips and as I went to play the beginning of the edited timeline content again the 'flag' appeared and VS would not allow me to play the project.

Is there any point in uninstalling/reinstalling VS?

Thanks again.

Regards,

Andy