clip ends abruptly

joejon wrote on 11/24/2003, 4:12 PM
I was asked by the band directors at my sons' school to video tape the band concert. I copied my D8 to VHS since that's what they have at school. I then cut the video out so I just had a sound track. Everything seemed to work fine. It's the first time I've tried this with track index markers. I did a little crossfading in and out to eliminate some of the audience noise and clapping. I didn't do anything with the sound/quality, since I don't know how to do any of that yet. Anyway, the only problem I encountered is that when I burn it to a CD, the very last song ends abruptly on the last note of the song (like it cuts it off). I tried lengthening the event back out to even include some of the clapping, but it still does the same thing when I burn to a CD. Why is it cutting the last clip off too soon? I've wasted a lot of CD's trying to get this to work. Help! Should I try recapturing the video?

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GaryKleiner wrote on 11/24/2003, 6:20 PM
The CD will end at the red track marker up on the ruler. You need to move that over.

Gary
joejon wrote on 11/24/2003, 6:28 PM
I made sure the red track marker was moved over passed the end of the song on my very first file before the burn. The end of the song sounds perfectly fine in Vegas when I play it before I burn the CD. Maybe it's a qwirk with my CD/DVD burner, but I haven't had any other problems with it doing that to any of my other burned media.
joejon wrote on 11/25/2003, 2:08 PM
I e-mailed Sony about the problem and they sent me an automated message indicating that they do not support CD Architect under my operating system (XP). What kind of reply was that? Has anyone else had problems burning CD's? Is there a fix?
GaryKleiner wrote on 11/25/2003, 3:09 PM
>they do not support CD Architect <

Are you using CD Architect? They certainly do support Vegas, which I assumed we were talking about.

Gary
Frenchy wrote on 11/25/2003, 3:55 PM
Which version of Vegas are you using? I remember a thread on the audio forum ( and had the problem myself) in that 4.0 and/or 4.0b chopped off the end of audio cd's (last 2 seconds). This has been repaired since, but I don't know if it happened with audio on video. Update to the latest (4.0e) - I haven't had any problems burning cd's recently.

[edit] Here's the thread:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=19&MessageID=178561

Frenchy
joejon wrote on 11/25/2003, 4:47 PM
I have Vegas 4.0d. I resubmitted my problem to Sony and this time it went through without giving me the reply that they don't support it. I don't believe I did anything differently. I was surprised also when that reply/message came saying they don't support it. We'll see what solution they have.
kameronj wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:18 PM
having worked with SF/Sony audio products for years prior to getting to Vegas Video....I think I know the problem that you are describing.

One of the ways to get around this is to insert silence at the end of the track.

I mean, actually mix in a file that has silence in it.

If you have sound forge....open a timeline, go to insert x-amount of silence (I think it is on the 'insert' menu). Save this file as a wav file.

Mix it in to your band music at the very end....then see if you run into the same problem. At best...if it cuts off...it will abruptly cut off the x-amount of silence....which from a sound ooint of view doesn't reall matter.

Hope that helps.
joejon wrote on 11/26/2003, 11:48 AM
kameronj,
all I have is Vegas, I don't have Sound Forge. Can I do what your decribing in Vegas? Please give details as I'm not as familiar with the program as you are. Even if that does work, Sony should fix this, it shouldn't be happening. Thanks
Chienworks wrote on 11/26/2003, 12:01 PM
To create a silent file with Vegas, start a new project and add an audio track, then from the insert menu choose "insert an empty event". Trim/stretch this to the desired length and render to a .wav file.

For that matter, you could just insert an empty event at the end of your project and this would accomplish the same thing.
joejon wrote on 11/26/2003, 2:17 PM
Thank you, Thank you! Inserting an empty event seemed the easiest to try and it worked beautifully. It's so frustrating trying so many things and nothing works and to have the sound end so abruptly, whether it be the song or even beyond the song sounds really cheap. Thanks again.