Help!!! Playlength is outputting too short

climbforlife wrote on 12/8/2004, 6:43 AM
Help me, I am a new user who has burned a few DVDs with this product.
I have taken on a larger project that is due in 3 days. I have a variety of files videos that are a compilation of jpegs and .avi files from a Sony handheld camera. So the avi files are more like frames sown together into video.

Anyway, I have been rendering these videos for the last week. Each video is around 10 minutes in length. Vegas runs thru the entire clip, the full 10 minute, while it is rendering the file into an .avi file. But, when the file outputs to my hard drive it reads playlength 282.43 seconds for each one. I don't know how to change this???? I need the entire clip not just the first four minutes, what am I doing wrong.

My rendering settings are'

Window .avi
NTSC DV
Custom setting is set to Best,
Then I just click render.

About a week ago, I read that I needed to have the "Strictly adhere to .avi settings" checked in the general preferences window, could that have messed me up??

Any help would be great, I can get you whatever info is necessary.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/8/2004, 6:57 AM
Did setting the "strictly adhere" flag change things? If so, then you probably have your reason. Why are you rendering back to an AVI? if you're ultimately going to be putting these files on a DVD you might as well render right to MPEG-2 using an appropriate DVD Arch template. While DVDA will quite happily create the MPEG for you, you have more control over things (such as bit rate and rendering quality) when you render from Vegas.

What filesystem are you using? That may be limiting the size of the files you can create as well. For large files you should be using NTFS rather than FAT.

--Scott
climbforlife wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:07 AM
How do I check what file system I am using. The files Im outputting, for say an 14 min project are about 3gigs. Basically, I understand I have to re-render these, so how should I do it?

They are simple jpeg and .avi files. I then output them as an .avi, then go to my Roxio software, create a menu and insert the .avi files as chapters, so they can click on whichever 10-12 minute clip they want to view. Then burn the .avi files to DVD. They play GREAT on my DVD player, except at the 4'42 mark they stop and go back to the main menu. When, I checked the output .avi. They all vary in Size, the 5 min ones are only about 1gig, but they still stop at 4.42, and the 3 gig ones say the same thing. So Vegas seems to be outputting a larger file, but they all play the same length.

If I redo all of these renderings what would you suggest and do you think it should resolve my problem. Also, the .avi button I selected, was before I started rendering, so I do not know if that is the problem.

Thanks
Bryan
ScottW wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:13 AM
My Computer/Manage/Disk management - it will tell you whether your disk is NTFS or FAT in the "File System" column.

Well, since I know nothing about Roxio, I can't help you there.

How are you viewing the outputted AVI files? If you're using Roxio to view, maybe the issue is with Roxio. If you view them with Windows Media 9 player, do you see the entire clip?

If you can see the entire clip with WM9, then I'd say dump Roxio and get some decent DVD Authoring software. DVD Lab is pretty inexpensive, or upgrade your Vegas to Vegas+DVD (DVD Architect doesn't have quite the learning curve that DVD Lab has).

--Scott
climbforlife wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:17 AM
When I output the file into wmp, I only get 4.42 of the clip??
ScottW wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:20 AM
Well, I'd start by unchecking the AVI compliance flag that you checked; then try a re-render. When you render, make sure that you don't have the option "render loop region only" checked.

Beyond that, I'm out of suggestions.
climbforlife wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:35 AM
Even thought the file sizes are different, all of the videos stop at 4.42. I don't think that would be a file management issue? Would you suggest me trying the mpeg-2 solution, or do you think I will have the same issue?
climbforlife wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:36 AM
Thanks, I'll try, preciate it, I'll update tomorrow morning with what I find out!!!