Subject:??Time Limit for recording??

Posted by: TinCanFury

Date:6/12/2001 10:14:12 AM

I'm trying to record audio from a VHS tape that is 6hours long. I've tried twice and the recording stops at 3h55m. An error pops up saying that there is no more harddrive space(which is not true, the temp file directory drive still has 5gigs free).
I'm running 5.0b and I remember recording off a VHS tape previously and getting all 6hours in.
I'm running win2000sp2. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem in 5.0b? and should I go back to my old copy of 4.0d to try it?

Thanks!

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: LanceL

Date:6/12/2001 6:19:34 PM

Pretty sure this is happening because you're hitting the 2Gb file limitation on .wav files which is a basic Windows/.wav spec. The only way to record more would be to halve your sample rate (from 44.1Khz to 22.050Khz) which would double the amount of audio you could record.

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: Engineer

Date:6/12/2001 11:26:06 PM

You could try recording in smaller file lengths.
If the original is mono, record as a single mono track.

Bill Woolford.

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: TinCanFury

Date:6/12/2001 11:44:57 PM

That would be it! Is there anyway around this other than changing the recording parameters? I've got them set to what i want/need.

Thanks!

>Pretty sure this is happening because you're hitting >the 2Gb file limitation on .wav files which is a >basic Windows/.wav spec. The only way to record more >would be to halve your sample rate (from 44.1Khz to >22.050Khz) which would double the amount of audio you >could record.

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: bigguy69

Date:7/6/2001 10:22:45 AM

Hello,

I am having this same issue. I am recording approx. 8 hours of audio at a time. I have to record at 24 bit, 48000 HZ. This makes approx. 1 hour of music 1 GB of data. I record for about 2 hours and recieve this error. My system is a AMD 1.4 GHZ, 256MB DDR Ram. WIN2K SP2, NTFS. Nothing is loading on the OS except Sound Forge 5.0b. I also have Vegas Audio 2.0, which gives me the same error. If their is a better audio recording application which allows me to break this silly 2GB file size MAX please let me know. Thank You.

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: Sonic

Date:7/6/2001 3:55:26 PM

Well, it isn't _quite_ the application. The RIFF file specification that .wav falls under is limited to 2 GB (really 4 since the file length is supposedly an unsigned 32-bit value, but many early applications always assumed it was signed, effectively cutting it to 2 GB as the de facto maximum).

While Sound Forge is stuck with this for now, Vegas 2 should give you the option to take advantage of our .w64 format. Check out the "Render Large Wave files as Wave64" option in General Preferences.

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:7/6/2001 4:41:35 PM

If you have vegas you could record the audio into 2 large 2gig chunks and then edit the pieces back together so that it plays back seemlessly. Or if you have Sound forge you can do the same thing....but then you will have to use the playlist editor and we all know how user friendly that is. So why doesn't soundforge have Non-destructive user friendly editing like Vegas yet SF? Oh, it would look too similar to CD architect? Or if you really like to punish yourself, record the Left and right signals seperately as mono files and then re-allign them in Vegas and Pan 1 track hard left and the other hard right.

Good luck...just some non practical solutions, but they'll work.
Brian Franz

Subject:RE: ??Time Limit for recording??

Reply by: SonyEPM

Date:7/9/2001 9:39:00 AM

Just to clarify Sonic's post: If you have Vegas and NTFS drives you will not have a recording time limit.
Longest recorded .wav we've confirmed was 22 hrs-