Fa310tx wrote:

 

Whoa...

I just noticed the little time part of the limit says 78 minutes!!!

Why in the world would it have a limit of 78 minutes, when a cd will hold 79 minutes and 58 seconds?

That's killing 1/40th (wow that sounds small) of the cd.

 

It's called a specification....

Several reasons for it, but this limit is actually doing you a favour. Everything starts from the centre of a CD and spreads outwards - including the dye layer when they splodge it on. And as a result of this, the last (outside) part of the disk isn't particularly reliable, and often screws up on indifferently adjusted players, giving read errors. There are a few bits of CD writing software that effectively ignore the spec. limit and let you record a bit further, but I couldn't in all honesty recommend this as a practice - you end up with a reputation for producing indifferent CDs.

Depending on what's on your CD, you could always speed it up by a percent or so - you could keep the pitch the same, and it would be really hard to spot the time compression when it's that small a percentage. Might all fit then.

Fa310tx wrote:

 

I never saw 78 minutes as a maximum in the red book specification.

The last I knew it was 79 minutes and 57 seconds.

Yeah, I looked at it the other week and remembered it wrong - it's actually 79.8 minutes (you can perhaps see why I remembered it wrong!)

We produce 15000+ cds a week (albeit only a small subset falls within the 78-80 minute mark) and I haven't once heard of someone returning one because it got flakey near the end.

Are they duplicated or replicated? It's generally the duplicated ones that fail. If you can get a glass master to accept the extra time it will probably be okay, because the reflectivity of the pressed CDs is much higher.

I thought that I had read a thread somewhere else on the forums that said that, although Audition warns of overlength CDs, you can actually carry on and burn them.

A couple of thoughts:

First off, have you tried a different CD blank?  I believe I've read in here that, although they all claim to be 800MB/80 minutes there can be variations between what different brands can actually hold.  I've never pushed a CD to the limit so don't have personal experience of this but it might at least be worth a try.

Second, if the different blank doesn't help, instead of editing and trimming more and more, how about using the Stretch and Pitch menu to alter the duration down by a few more seconds.  Over a file as long as yours you'd never hear the speed difference and, although a workround, it might be the easy way to get everything on the same CD.

What the hell Adobe? I've just "upgraded" nine studios to CS6 after avoiding the CS5 dog! We produce several hundred new 80minute masters each week. The time-length is really critical. We cannot reduce by another two minutes and are being forced to use bloody awful Nero to burn our masters! Fix this idiotic spec immediately!

Mark Learey wrote:

 

We cannot reduce by another two minutes and are being forced to use bloody awful Nero to burn our masters!

Why not try Imgburn. Free and no extraneous rubbish. Just burns CDs. Also works with cuelists from CueListTool.

http://www.imgburn.com/

I jettisoned Nero many moons ago,

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