Video recording clips are too short.

[alessio72]

Hi, the video recording/editing in GTA5 is awesome, but recorded clips are really too short!
The game automatically records another clip when the first end, (and you can join them in editing) but you always lose a few seconds between a clip and another.
Is there any way to increase the recording time?

In editing mode, I can't find how to cut a part of the clip, any suggestion?

In story and director mode, it would take at least an option to automatically put the game on pause in dead times between the recording of a clip and another.(But would not solve the problem in the online mode, where the ability to record video is really fantastic.)

[Invisible]

Same problem, rockstar editor is allowed to use 25gb on my harddrive which are default settings but can only record 2 minute clips. They don't even use 25gb and i guess setting this higher won't even change the clip time?

Another thing that still bothers me is that you can't change the harddrive/folder where you want to save all those recorded clips and the final video, it just use your windows drive which is not acceptable.

I know about the workaround to use another harddrive for your documents folder but this will cause problems for other games/tools specialy if you use an extern harddrive which isn't always plugged.

[Moga CMDR]

the clip times seem to vary. i've had them as short as 30 seconds, as long as 1 and a half minutes.

I don't really get it.

[Invisible]

Originally posted by NepNepX:

the clip times seem to vary. i've had them as short as 30 seconds, as long as 1 and a half minutes.

I don't really get it.

"Recorded clips will be between 30 and 90s seconds in length, depending on how busy your action is."

This is written for the Action Replay but if you manualy start and stop recording it shouldn't be limited but it is. Why even add a setting to change how much space it is allowed to use if it doesn't even use it. I mean, with 25gb you can record at least a hour or so of playtime, it makes no sense at all.

[Invisible]

Seems you can change it manualy in the settings file...

<numBytesPerReplayBlock value="9000000" />
<numReplayBlocks value="36" />
<maxSizeOfStreamingReplay value="1024" />
<maxFileStoreSize value="65536" />

but which of those settings is it ^^ Will play around with it later, i hope it works.

[JayOnSpeed]

Maybe to prevent oversized files and prevent the corruption of those files idk.

[Odra]

IIRC GTA IV had that same issue, but the most I can remember is it had something to do with how much VRAM you had left unused (or was it RAM?)

Try the following experiment, lower all the graphic settings so you are using the smallest ammount of VRAM possible and try recording again.

[Invisible]

Originally posted by Odra:

IIRC GTA IV had that same issue, but the most I can remember is it had something to do with how much VRAM you had left unused (or was it RAM?)

Try the following experiment, lower all the graphic settings so you are using the smallest ammount of VRAM possible and try recording again.

Would be a bit strange if it use the VRAM to cache the video clip i think? It could be RAM yes but i have 16gb and more than half is not used when i play gta, shouldn't it be more than 90 or 120 seconds recording time? Will see with different graphic settings, worth a try, thanks :)

[Jepper]

Mine recordigs are only 2-5 seconds and i have the lowest settings.

[umar48]

Very strange, it always starts recording for me after the first recording ends and saves. It's meant to do that anyway. If it isn't, you may have a slow drive.

[Jepper]

My recordings where normal length before but gor short after a while

[umar48]

Depends on what's going on. If you're just sitting in a car in a remote area, your recording will take ages to finish before it saves that and goes to the next recording. If lots of stuff is going on in an area, the recording buffer can be as small as 10 seconds.

[Jepper]

its always that short even when i just stand still in michael house.

[umar48]

Originally posted by VideoBwhit:

its always that short even when i just stand still in michael house.

Interesting. How much RAM do you have?

[Jepper]

8 GB

[umar48]

Originally posted by VideoBwhit:

8 GB

Interesting. Don't know why they'd be short then. Perhaps it would be longer at higher settings. I'm not sure, really.