Help: VideoStudio X10 Voice Over length longer then 1 Minute

[rileyil77]

I'm trying to do a voice over on a 2 and 1/2 hour video for a local TV station by next Wednesday. Before I upgraded from 6 Gigs of RAM to 32 Gigs of RAM it worked fine. I know at one time someone told me to change something in my settings to get this done, but as I stated this has worked over the last couple years with no problems, I just forgot how to do it. Plus I can no longer find the web sight where I was given the information. Does anyone know what setting I need to make my voice overs last longer then 1 minute? I would really like them to be the whole length of the video. Whether it is a quick 5 or 10 minute YouTube video or an all day 12 over local TV special. Nothing worse then it sounded like the host keeps going in and out on a TV show.

Thanks,

Riley

[Davidk]

Talking for 2 hours continuously? Wow!.

There should be no reason why you cannot do that Record in one long session. But realistically, by using editing you are not doing it "live on air" so it doesn't have to be one long file, and you have time to fix flubs you make. Voice commentary is best done with in small clips for that reason. Generally, my advice is to limit each recorded file to about 10=15seconds, 2 sentences. Repeat for the next one, and line them all up in the voice track, matched to the TL video. This way, if you flub it, you don't have to re-do everything.

[weaver]

Check also the HDD formats as well. I have very bad experience with professional TV studios in this issue. They use very often FAT32 which limits the file size to 2 GB. Format your HDD to NTSF what extends the file size to 4 GB. 2 hours of video will be already over 2GB.

[weaver]

There is an interesting experience with cameras ( I do also many long recordings theater, speeches, trains etc) and use sometimes 4-5 cameras.
The main cameras are Sony HD cameras. Those interestingly cut the files, ie if the recording is longer there are several files on the SD cards. The transition is not always smooth, but just 1-2 frames are jumping or freezing. My JVC cameras create always a single file, so they can be bigger than 2 GB ( it was also my problem, when I tried to transfer the JVC files to the TV studio - all transfers failed.)
There are also cameras ( I hate those) simple stop when the file achieves the 2 GB limit and somebody has to manually restart to continue in recording.

[rileyil77]

Thanks, but none of these answers help me. I'm using a computer with NTFS format. I have nothing to worry about with the camera part, because the file is already recorded and digitally on my system. I have to have it the entire length of the video without pausing. So far and I don't know why I've another program that allows me to do what VideoStudio X10 Ultimate had been letting me do for the longest time, and then suddenly stopped working. I mean today is Monday at 5:25 AM.... Tomorrow, Tuesday evening, due to my job schedule will now be the only way I can get the voice-over done. If we make a mistake, it is fine. My 17 year old son does help me a long the way, and he will point out that I was mistaken and take over talking for a while. I do the same with him. We have done it this way since 2007, when he was 5 years old, using other and older versions of VideoStudio. Not sure now why all of sudden it stopped working. Would be nice if I could continue using VideoStudio X10 Ultimate to do it all again... I mean I did pay for it. But now I have to use for it all editing stuff and then use another program for our voice-overs.

[weaver]

What is exactly limited? The recording length?

I never use the VS for voice recording - there are many programs ( audiocity etc) for voice recording but I prefer external device (Zoom voice recorder) for recording.
Such limitations were earlier in the MS audiorecorder, they recorded always just 1 minute sequences.

[asik1]

riley, the fact that you have done VO for 2 hours in one go in the past dosent mean that it's a proper way to do this in 2019 on the computer.
VS is a non-linear editing software, so you can stop a record as much as you want.
Even Basket Ball game is more at pause than in play so why can't you?

[rileyil77]

This is how we do it. I've been doing it this way for several years. It is they way we want it done. If you don't know how to get the length from 60 seconds to the entire length of the video, why are you replying? I don't need to be told how it should or should not be done. I need to know how to make it like it was doing two weeks ago, before my RAM upgrade. I was able to do the entire video with a Voice-Over. Again whether it was a 5 minute YouTube video or a 2 hour show for our TV Station.

[tletter]

I'm trying to do a voice over on a 2 and 1/2 hour video for a local TV station by next Wednesday

As this is a time sensitive issue, I'd suggest that you simply record your audio using something like Audacity whilst watching the video and then combine the audio and video using VS.

Before I upgraded from 6 Gigs of RAM to 32 Gigs of RAM it worked fine. I know at one time someone told me to change something in my settings to get this done

I've upgraded RAM without having to change any settings including the paging file which is normally set automatically.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[lata]

Hi
I tried and was able to record over 1 minute
You should try Resetting the program, although I think you may have to re-install the program

http://lata.me.uk/corel/reset/reset.htm

If it's your pc environment and not video studio then I don't know where to go to fix that, sorry

[asik1]

I'm trying to do a voice over on a 2 and 1/2 hour video for a local TV station by next Wednesday

As this is a time sensitive issue, I'd suggest that you simply record your audio using something like Audacity whilst watching the video and then combine the audio and video using VS.

Before I upgraded from 6 Gigs of RAM to 32 Gigs of RAM it worked fine. I know at one time someone told me to change something in my settings to get this done

I've upgraded RAM without having to change any settings including the paging file which is normally set automatically.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

tletter, so do I, I went from 4 to 8gb, no problemo.
But... if all was fine on 6GB I will say to rileyil take out the new memory, stay at 6gb , finish the project in time and than dive again into the problem.