Is it possible to display 2 hours of audio in track view?

I have some live shows i'm trying to edit and would like to zoom out to see the entire show.   Is there a setting that is preventing this?     If I zoom out it stops at about 60 minutes of the ~2 hour show.

I believe you can.

I recorded complete practice session longer than that and had them up. Been a couple years since Ive done it that way though

I split long audio files and create multiple projects. I learned right here  how easy it is to do in Sonar. Select all tracks-> split all the files-> delete the parts not being used. Open another project  import the same files->split->delete the opposite parts from the first project, etc. Make sure you have your original files stored ( backed up) somewhere other than the projects audio folder. I usually split by song. I hope this makes sense.

Rocky

bluzdog


I split long audio files and create multiple projects. I learned right here  how easy it is to do in Sonar. Select all tracks-> split all the files-> delete the parts not being used. Open another project  import the same files->split->delete the opposite parts from the first project, etc. Make sure you have your original files stored ( backed up) somewhere other than the projects audio folder. I usually split by song. I hope this makes sense.

Rocky

Thanks for the reply.  I will consider this option, but it sounds like it may be time consuming to reassemble the parts and I have to get the total air time down to ~ +/- 2 seconds in total length for radio purposes.  The show is also a lot of spoken parts, skits, etc..   It's working OK to scroll back and forth, but I just wish I could zoom out to see the entire show.  

I think it was Sonar 8.5 then.

What I used to do was somewhat Rocky does-

DO A "SAVE AS" for a master back-up 

Figure out how many tracks per song
Multiply that by how many songs
Right click and select "Insert Multiple Tracks"-fill out as needed

Now take your initial take in the first set of tracks and start splitting at the end of the song,
Select the remainder and drag them straight down to the next set of tracks,
Select and Slip edit out intermission between songs and repeat the step above until through all songs

Set up Busses as needed and insert FX in busses (Eliminates the repetition of track view FX inserts) 

Go up on the Time Ruler, Right click and insert and Label each song (Makes jumping to each song a snap with on click)  

Should make it fast for you-If I remember correctly the last one I did was about 4 hours, 21 songs and came out to actually be about 160 tracks with 8 busses. The steps above made it FAST and simple to deal with.  

Kalle Rantaaho


Zooming out is not the answer. I believe if you've zoomed out to the max  then it should work by shrinking the view horizontally.
Aren't there the +/- magnifying glasses in the low right corner of the view in X1? 

I can't see anything preventing however long projects being shown, it's just that it gets too tightly packed to edit or even tell the widest lows from the transients..

+1
I just opened up one of my old projects in X1
Here the trick I found as suggested above


--Lower Right corner-Zoom OUT using the [- Mag Glass] as FAR as it will go.
     (You can drag the scroll bar arrow but it will not go but to a certain point.  IF you use the scoll right ARROW by the Zoom out button, it will let you go as far as needed.)  I Stopped checking at like 5.5 hours

Yes the little +/- allows any resolution, to me it seems infinite.

Because Sonar is not a Wave editing program I would recommend using a dedicated wave editor for what you are doing, it will save you time and frustration. Try Wave Lab, Sound Forge or even Audacity. 
In Wave lab the entire track is shown in a smaller view at the top. The larger edit screen is easily re-sized to and zoom in and out of.
 You do need a certain level of zoom for working efficiently. There is a bar in the track view that shows you where the edit screen is zoomed to.

on a 21.5 inch 1680X1050
by taking out:
-browser
- inspector

and minimizing the track properties (leftmost section of track view)

I can see 1:11:00, on X1d

I hope this gives you an idea.. 

V

Thanks for all the replies and ideas.   I'll have to get this project done then check into some of the suggested options to use for the following shows.