Thanks for the reply!

I’m not actually working with a single continuous 24+ hour video. I’m editing a two-day festival, and I’ve spread different performances and recordings across the timeline in separate sections. So the total timeline length goes beyond 24 hours, but each individual clip is much shorter.

I know I could split the work into multiple projects and transfer parts over, but it’s most convenient for me to have everything in one place on a single timeline. That’s why I was wondering if there’s any workaround or setting that could help with this situation.

It's very possible this was never tested.

Thanks for the reply!

I’m not actually working with a single continuous 24+ hour video. I’m editing a two-day festival, and I’ve spread different performances and recordings across the timeline in separate sections. So the total timeline length goes beyond 24 hours, but each individual clip is much shorter.

I know I could split the work into multiple projects and transfer parts over, but it’s most convenient for me to have everything in one place on a single timeline. That’s why I was wondering if there’s any workaround or setting that could help with this situation.

How do you scroll and make fine edits in such a huge timeline? My timelines exceed seldom a length of 10 minutes, I prefer to make short chapter like projects which I merge together in one final project.

I've never had a timeline anywhere nearing 24 hours or longer, the longest most recently being a bit under 9 hours which was a 4K project with video for the entire project being from a video camera, GoPro camera and phone video just mass grouped in date of filming order (with markers showing the dates) on the timeline without any editing at all. I broke it up into 5 sub-projects based on filming locations and did initial rough editing before combining those projects back into one project (now well under3 hours long) for fine editing. The amount of time that was involved in breaking up the projects and then combining them back into one project was an 'eye blink' compared to total editing time.

I could see security camera footage getting to such lengths.

Thank you for your interest in this topic!

Just to clarify, I work for a Bulgarian folk music television channel. We often film multi-day festivals from morning until late evening, and later broadcast them on air in separate parts of about 40–50 minutes each. That’s why it’s most convenient for me to keep all the footage in one project/timeline and then cut it into the broadcast segments.

Splitting into sub-projects is of course possible, but for this type of work it slows down the process quite a bit. Having everything in one timeline makes it easier to organize, scroll through, and prepare the different 40–50 minute episodes for broadcast.

This last festival ended up being around 30 parts — I know it’s a lot, but that’s the reality of our workflow.

Thanks for the reply!

I’m not actually working with a single continuous 24+ hour video. I’m editing a two-day festival, and I’ve spread different performances and recordings across the timeline in separate sections. So the total timeline length goes beyond 24 hours, but each individual clip is much shorter.

I know I could split the work into multiple projects and transfer parts over, but it’s most convenient for me to have everything in one place on a single timeline. That’s why I was wondering if there’s any workaround or setting that could help with this situation.

How do you scroll and make fine edits in such a huge timeline? My timelines exceed seldom a length of 10 minutes, I prefer to make short chapter like projects which I merge together in one final project.

That’s actually one of the main reasons I love using Vegas Pro — it gives me a lot of freedom and makes navigating through the interface and such a huge timeline surprisingly easy. I also actively use markers and regions, which help me stay organized and quickly jump between different parts of the festival.

What about to make a project of each separate day?

What about to make a project of each separate day?

Yes, I’ll probably end up doing that, but as I mentioned, having everything in one place is by far the most convenient workflow for me. It also feels like this might be a bug or limitation in the program, so maybe it’s something the developers could take a look at. I really hope it can be improved in future updates.

What about when your huge project crashes/becomes corrupt? It would be for me far to dangerous to work that way.

What about when your huge project crashes/becomes corrupt? It would be for me far to dangerous to work that way.

Live Save and Advanced Backup are definitely handy features. Luckily, I haven’t had any broken or corrupted projects after a crash so far.

@max9

Hi

Assuming you are putting all the video directly on to the timeline.

With such long video clips, a change in workflow may be advantageous by using the Trimmer setting In/Out points for sections of the source video(s) you want and dragging the section to the timeline, more details in the manual under Using the Trimmer.

Another option is to used nested timelines, see here.

John EB

Hi @max9 🙂

You could try going to "File->Properties...->Ruler" and changing the ruler time format from the default "SMPTE Drop (29.97 fps, Video)" to "Time". SMPTE time codes have a maximum value of 23:59:59:29 and are supposed to wrap back to zero, whereas the "Time" time code should simply increase the "Day" counter. I can imagine that this might also help with the repeating audio content.

Hi @akrusche, thank you for suggestion

Actually, I always work with Time and Frames in my projects. I just tried switching it to Time, and the only difference I noticed is that after the 24th hour it didn’t reset to 0h, but instead started from 1h. The audio issue, however, is still the same — it restarts from the beginning after 24 hours.

@max9

Hi

Assuming you are putting all the video directly on to the timeline.

With such long video clips, a change in workflow may be advantageous by using the Trimmer setting In/Out points for sections of the source video(s) you want and dragging the section to the timeline, more details in the manual under Using the Trimmer.

Another option is to used nested timelines, see here.

John EB

Yes, I’m aware of most of the workflow options in Vegas, including using the Trimmer and nested timelines. I was just hoping there might be a direct solution to my specific issue, but thank you for the suggestions anyway.

Hi @max9 🙂

I tried to reproduce the repeating of the audio at the 24:00:00 hour mark. In my test case everything seems to work fine. I have put a sweep with a fadeout at around 24:00:00 and if it would restart, you would see (and hear) a jump in the waveform, but this is not the case... Maybe I am missing something and you could give additional context?