Maximum Time at Different Resolutions

For 1080p it's about 20 to 22 minutes.
If you have a screen in one color (without overlay) it can be much longer as it can be compressed much better.
So a video with little change can be longer than a video with much change.

@Pa3fbo: "For 1080p it's about 20 to 22 minutes."

I want to export a video of about 14 minutes. Virb Edit doesn't warn me about the 4Gb limit - until the end of the export process, when it tells me that my file has exceeded the 4Gb size limit. Of course, the export fails. I've tried several times, as I was very sure that I should be well within the 4Gb limit - and, according to the information you have given, this must be the case. Yet the export still fails.
I have successfully exported a video of just over 10 minutes - 3.5Gb or so.

The videos all have the same set of overlays (time, track, speed, cadence, HR, etc).

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"If you have a screen in one color (without overlay) it can be much longer as it can be compressed much better.
So a video with little change can be longer than a video with much change."

I understand the basic concepts of video compression. Due to the fact that the video is of my recent mountain-biking trip, the video probably does not compress as well as it could if it were of some other activity - but still: only 14 minutes, and it still fails??? The original files from the Virb are of about 4Gb (+-27 minutes) - recorded in Fast HD.

What do you suggest?

The 1080p / 20min was for 30fps.
I expect 1080p at 60fps to be almost double in size, so only room for 10 minutes.
If you don't use a track, just make your 14 min video in two parts for about 7 min and use another program to combine them.
If you have a track in your overlay, make one video of about 7 min having the first half of your trip, than add the last few seconds of the second half. This should result in the complete track being shown.
Than make a video beginning with the first few seconds of the first half, followed by the second part of your trip.
In another program trim the extra seconds and combine the two parts.

Ridiculous and pathetic!

@pa3fbo

Thanks for the information.

This really SUCKS!!! Does Garmin **truly** believe that people who use Windows 7 will not perform any activity for longer than 10 minutes at a time - and therefore there is no need for this functionality in Virb Edit?!?! Is this their line of 'reasoning' when deciding on which video framework to choose to implement in Virb Edit?!?

Even if this is the case, the very LEAST they could have done was to ensure that:

• Virb Edit will automatically split exports into files within the limit
  
• Virb Edit will ensure that data displayed is consistent over each such exported clip (e.g. exported clip 2 starts showing the distance and time as at the end of exported clip 1; exported clip 3 starts showing the distance and time as at the end of exported clip 2; etc. etc. etc)
  
• Virb Edit will join each exported clip together at the end of the export process, to produce 1 video showing the entire activity recorded, with accurate and consistent data shown throughout
  

PROBLEM SOLVED!!

It's not rocket-science!! With all the people working there, was there NO-ONE among them who could have thought of this?!? Or did not one of them have the ability to program this??

Disgusted!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Agreed.
They have other proirities than make it work for Win7:mad:

hello all,

Do you know where the 4gb file size limit is coming from? I have Win7 64bit + NTFS drive - i thought that FAT and/or 32bit win7 were the limiting factors.
I am getting VERY annoyed with the lack of being able to make an 90min long 720p 30fps video. I bought the VIRB to create training videos for use with Virtual Training + my Kickr.

So if you guys are using VirbEdit to make pieces of files, what software are you using to join them together afterwards? I figure I will be trying to compress the video somehow afterwards as well. Inside Virtual Training, it seems like other 720p 90min videos are coming in around only 2gb.

Not a problem with Windows 8.1 :rolleyes:

Not a problem with Windows 8.1 :rolleyes:

Yes - replacing Windows 7 with Windows 8 will help. But so will replacing the Virb with another camera which does not have these issues...... :(

@hala514 - if you search you can find a free video joiner (that's all that's required to join the individual clips together). I too use Virtual Training (on a CycleOps PowerBeam Pro).

Thanks for the quick reply.

So in summary,

1) you try to make up 4gb segments of videos out of virb including the gauges, etc.
2) Join them with some other SW
3) What about the convenient gpx file that the virb edit export would have created (if it could create). Do you somehow join all the separate gpx's as well, or just make up your own route separately?

Finally, @Bannor, when you join the files do you also compress down the video to something useable? Seems like virtual training video files are generally no larger than 2gb. I did this last night with a video, and used 4000kbps as the bit rate; seemed to get a 720p video down to 2.4gb for 90minutes. Sound about right?

@VIRBEDIT developers - can you PLEASE include a lower bitrate option for exporting? Looks like the default exports are now set to 20000kbps. A 5000kbps would make files only 25% as large and would be completely acceptable for me.
(are Garmin people on this board?)

Finally, @Bannor, when you join the files do you also compress down the video to something useable? Seems like virtual training video files are generally no larger than 2gb. I did this last night with a video, and used 4000kbps as the bit rate; seemed to get a 720p video down to 2.4gb for 90minutes. Sound about right?

I've only uploaded 1 video (a test, really). If I do upload a larger video (and I do plan to, at some point), I will not compromise quality (unless there is some limit about which I am currently unaware). I don't care at all what other people choose to do with theirs; this is nothing to me.
In saying that, I have also noticed the same trend with video sizes; it's possible VT themselves reduce video quality to compress the files and reduce their size. If so, this is out of my hands - but it doesn't mean I have to also compromise.