Voice-over just suddenly stops recording

[rkstudio]

Does anybody know why voice-over stops recording whenever it wants to. It's not stopping because it's at the end of a track or something. It just stops right in the middle of recording for no apparent reason what-so-ever...It's very annoying when that happens. Voice-overs are already hard to do without a glitch in videostudio 2020 pro, causing it to be even harder.

[pvreditor]

I can't answer your question with respect to why you have a problem recording voiceovers in VideoStudio. However, there is a pretty easy workaround: Record the voiceovers on your video camera, and bring the video files into the VideoStudio library as audio clips. I've done that many times and it works great.

FWIW, I do voiceovers all the time, and I've never actually recorded them on my computer. I always record them on a separate audio recorder or on my video camera. I occasionally record them on my cellphone, usually as video files (since many of the audio recording apps make it difficult/impossible to find the audio you record using the app). In fact, I recently edited a short film where the audio was bad from an actress in one scene (the mic rubbed on her clothes). I had her re-record her lines using her iPhone, and used those clean audio takes -- you'd never know the difference, even though the video of the scene was shot in 2015 and her audio was re-recorded in 2019.

[rkstudio]

I appreciate your reply but I'm quite confused about the process. Actually, I recording my video with my cell phone since it's the best camera I have. So if I'm going to record the video on the phone, and I do the voice on the phone too, isn't that the same as a regular voice track without voice-over? So the reason I'm doing the voice over is so that I can change the speed of the video because making an art tutorial is very slow since the nature of painting a picture is very slow.
I guess I have to say I really don't understand what you mean. Sorry.
I guess I should describe the process that I'm trying to use. What I'm doing now is, I'm painting a picture, recording it with my cell phone, without audio, just the video. Then I bring it into VS and work with the video first, like adding stills, speeding up the video in most, if not all parts of it, adding transitions, etc. Then doing the voice-over as I'm watching the video so that I can describe what I'm doing in the video. So my thought process is that the voice-over would be the very last thing, I guess it's more of a narration, actually. I hope there's an easier process though because what I"m doing now is way more time consuming than I thought it would be. If there's a better way, I would sure like to know.

[lata]

Hi

I believe pvreditor is suggesting that you use other methods to record the voice over and not use Video Studio
Using Video Studio any mouse click will terminate the recording, that can be annoying

pvreditor is suggesting that we can use a camcorder to record our voice, of course that will record a video but easy to extract the audio stream within Video Studio
You could record to your phone, import the video to Video Studio to Split Audio

Windows has a Voice Recorder (Start Menu - Voice Recorder) option that works quite well recording to m4a audio files
Yes using other options will require you to sync the clips, but I suspect you would do that when using Video Studio.

Audacity may also have a recording option, others on the forum may have a better idea on that.

[pvreditor]

Do it exactly as you do the video now. When it comes time to record the voiceover, just watch the video as you do now, start the video recording on your cell phone, and recite your voiceover into your cell phone. When you're done recording the voiceover, bring that video (the one with your voiceover) into the computer, and tell VideoStudio to import it as an audio file. VideoStudio will then treat it as an audio-only file, and you can do with it whatever you do with your voiceover files.

An alternative is that any video can be dragged onto an audio track in VideoStudio. But I don't want to confuse the issue any further.

[Ken Berry]

I have always used the Audacity method. I make/edit the video. Then I actually write a script. Then I record each entry of the script using Audacity as an individual file. This gives me the opportunity to rewrite if necessary if the original doesn't sound right, also using some of Audacity's inbuilt filters when necessary. Then I export these as individual .wav files -- though you can add an mp3 filter to Audacity and export as ,p3 if you wish. Then I simply add each sound file to the right place in the video using the voice track, adjusting the surrounding audio and possibly music track as necessary.

This sounds very much like what you are trying to achieve and, with respect, nowhere near as messy as recording the voiceovers with a video camera, then stripping out the audio from the resulting video. I acknowledge, though, that users will always use a method they are comfortable with.

[pvreditor]

This sounds very much like what you are trying to achieve and, with respect, nowhere near as messy as recording the voiceovers with a video camera, then stripping out the audio from the resulting video. I acknowledge, though, that users will always use a method they are comfortable with.

Bringing in audio riding on a video clip isn't messy at all. Just go to "Insert file to the Library" and choose "Insert Audio...". You'd have to do those same two steps with any audio-only file, and you can do them with a video file as well. Once you insert/import a file that way, VideoStudio treats it like any other audio file. There's no splitting or further hoops to jump through.

[Davidk]

Recording voiceover with VS
- is not only any mouse click stopping the recording (Trevor's post above)
- but any touch to the ESC or SPACE bar keys (the tooltip for this says that). Just brushing it or putting something on the keyboard, like the paper with a script on it, will do that.

I always use VS voiceover and I've never had a voiceover recording issue like this. But have often screwed the recording up (fumbled or mumbled the lines in a script) and done the ESC or space bit to stop recording, at which point I then delete not only the undesired clip that's now in the voice track, but the same clip file that's in the audio voiceover folder.

[kmurraysummit]

I am having the same problem. When recording a voice-over in Videostudio Ultimate 2020, it automatically stops at 1 minute. I followed the path back to Documents, Corel Videostudio Pro, 23.0, VoiceOver. There are approximately 15 .wav files there that are all exactly 10MB each. My theory is it is maxing out and stopping the audio recording process. Just a theory. Any thoughts?

[kmurraysummit]

SOLUTION: The desktop background was set to slideshow with rotating pictures changing every 1 minute. I changed the background to a permanent picture and retried the voice-over. It continued on until I pressed the spacebar manually.
Fix was discovered by a group Admin: Lata
Thank you very much Lata!