There are several simple ways to approach this. I being a knob twister frequently have all kinds of unwanted junk on the timeline that never makes it into the final project, but I don't delete those events until I'm sure.

Are you sure you understand fully what the terms "event" and "split" under Edit means within Vegas? You can very easily work with single or multiple events and render accordingly. As far as removing events you no longer want, especially those at the end of the timeline, I find that simply right clicking on those events then selecting 'delete' is the fastest way to get rid of them. Splitting at some point, then deleting will set your project length to whatever you want it to be.

Have you done the tutorial?

I am having an issue with the timeline length being to long as well. i am making a 3 minute music video and for some reason my timeline has decided to be an hour and 5 minutes in length making it very hard to zoom in and scroll left to right as it is now extremely sensitive to movement since its so long. How do i fix the length issue???

There are several simple ways to approach this. I being a knob twister frequently have all kinds of unwanted junk on the timeline that never makes it into the final project, but I don't delete those events until I'm sure.

Whenever that happens to me, I move the unwanted stuff to a separate track and mute that track. If I later decide to use some of it, I move it to one of the non-muted tracks. When I am finished, I generally just delete the muted track and clean up the media list before final render.

making it very hard to zoom in and scroll left to right as it is now extremely sensitive to movement since its so long.

Click on the + in the lower right end of the timeline.

making it very hard to zoom in and scroll left to right as it is now extremely sensitive to movement since its so long.

Click on the + in the lower right end of the timeline.

 

i know how to zoom in the issue is since i have to zoom in so incredibly far its making it hard to move left and right down the timeline precisely. its like moving the scroll bar on a pdf with 3,000 pages. it moves, however it moves like 300 pages down with the slightest movement

I guess everyone developed a habit. Sometimes I have more videos in one project. That is, if it's about a "series".

I just select the portion I want to render. Marking the starting and finishing point with markers, or creating regions makes this easier. Then do the "render as", and there select "render loop region only" in render options.

Illustrate:

Marking the regions too allows to batch render the regions.

That sounds very strange. The only thing I can think of is if you have something else, perhaps a very small clip, further down the timeline or something. If you hit Ctrl + A, you can select everything and pull it to the front, then look down the timeline to see if there is something else on there that's causing it to be so long. If you do that, can you see anything else on the timeline? When you hit the Zoom Edit Tool, does the Entire Timeline of 1 hr and 5 min show, and the only thing on there is just the 3 min video? Another option, I suppose, would be to render out what you've got so far as a loop region as a high-quality, 32 bit mxf file, totally clear and close out of Vegas then import it back in and see if the timeline is still that long.

I've figured it out if anyone cares about this issue or looks for an answer.

 

I have never seen this option mentioned before, found this by accident.

Go into Options<Quantize to Frames<Show Unquantized Event Edges

It will show you the events that you cannot see otherwise for some reason. Take a look at your tracks once again, it may show something you haven't seen before.

You must remove the newly discovered events or move them where you want them.

I hope I helped.