shortening/condensing a film

reygato wrote on 8/20/2009, 3:32 PM
Ah.....it is now just comical to see what Sony Vegas Movie Editor 9.0B Platinum Pro will do next.
Today we spent about 2 hours putting together footage from vacation, adding transitions, music, titles etc. We had a decent looking video, about 19 minutes total time. After it was rendered, first, something amazing!!!! It had sound. Then something more amazing: It was only 7.1 seconds LONG!!!!
The Program chose a clip that was 7.1 seconds (exaclty) from the middle of the video, and rendered and saved that as the project. The rest? Wiped out, all that effort gone.

I like wasting time and effort to put together projects with Sony Vegas only to find out what the program will do next to destroy my efforts. Makes me really want to shop for something witha Sony Label on it in the future......(sarcasm)

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 8/20/2009, 3:50 PM
The blame is yours on this one, not Vegas'. You had a marked area in your timeline, and when you exported, the marked area was the one that got exported. To have the whole timeline export, you need to either not have any such marked areas, OR, when you go to the RENDER AS dialog, to UNCHECK the checkbox about "render only that part blah blah" (can't remember the exact words now).
gogiants wrote on 8/20/2009, 5:05 PM
Eugenia is right on the render as portion, but I'm confused by you saying that the project itself only has the one segment. I would think you'd be able to reopen the project and have the work saved, choosing to re-render whatever segment you'd like to render.

Are you indeed saying that somehow the project itself was not saved?
Chienworks wrote on 8/20/2009, 5:40 PM
There are some folks who feel that once a render has completed that it's safe and wise and prudent to ditch the project without saving it. I certainly hope that's not the case here. Considering some of reygato's other posts i'm guessing he's fearing the worst thing he can imagine first, rather than actually thinking that if the whole project is still on the timeline then maybe it hasn't been lost.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 8/20/2009, 11:23 PM
Yea but I bet it rendered FAST....