How to render very long tracks

Theodon · Post by **Theodon** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:46 am

Hi there,

i just encountered a problem thats bugging the hell out of me. I wanted to combine some dj-sets recorded indivudually to one very long set. this is 3 1/2 hours long. I re-mastered it a bit and so on. No i want to export it, but Live is giving me the great following message:

[german][quote]
"Der ausgewählte Zeitabschnitt ist zu lang, um in eine einzelne Datei gerendert zu werden. Für jede neue Datei würden 2152 MB benötigt. Live unterstützt jedoch nur das Rendern von Dateienn bis zu einer Größe von 2047 MB."[/quote]

[translation to english][code]
"The chosen time is too long, to render it to one single file. For every file you would need 2152 MB. But Live only supports the rendering of files up to 2047 MB."[/code]

Okay, so I could use just another program, but doing this i would have to go through the whole process again. Or I could export parts and fit them back together in another program, which also is not the best way. I also thought about just bouncing the master to a new track in live and just let it record the whole set through but I guess, the 2 GB Limit will also cut my last minutes here.

Does anyone has any idea. thanks in advance

stefanvdm · Post by **stefanvdm** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:39 pm

Do you absolutely need the whole set in one file?
Be aware that files >2GB can give you all kind of trouble (on CDs, DVDs, different OS, several applications, etc.).
I would just make two files and play them in sequence, is that not possible for your use case?

Theodon · Post by **Theodon** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:34 pm

the thing is that i want to encode it to mp3 afterwards and delete the wav, so the big trouble with that will be not so harmfull in the end. i'm working with mac os x 10.5.3 so Filsize>2GB should be no problem. I've went with splitting now, but I think this is no alternative for the future. There is just some occasions where one long file is needed and if Live does not support it, i'll have to go with another programm i think

btw: this problem would also be not so bad, if Live would support direct MP3 encoding, because than it is really hard to get to the 2 GB Limit