I always seem to find these things. To make matters worse, the problem is only on one computer now. I noticed the problem on my laptop that I am getting ready for a road trip. When you get to the end of the project, the cursor just keeps going and going and going etc. AND yes I checked to make sure there was nothing clear out there. I did this by clicking on the "Go to End" button and it goes to the right place. But the cursor does not recognize that as being the end.
NOW, with the same material, I tried it again on the desktop machine and the cursor goes for two seconds beyond the end and then stops.
So now it becomes a computer issue. Both are running XP with SP2 installed. I have to run "Enditall" on the laptop to avoid dropping frames on the external firewire drive. The desktop does not require "Enditall:" I did find a parameterin the "hidden" settings that says "Play past end of project" and the values are the same.

I guess it is something I will have to live with.
kent

>I have to run "Enditall" on the laptop to avoid dropping frames on the external firewire drive.

Sorry, I don't understand that! Can you give a bit more detail, please?

Ian G.

Ian,
Enditall is a small program that lists and then allows you to shutdown or kill the running processes on your computer. Many of these can and will interfere with what you are trying to do. (Capture video). This program used to be a free download but it now requires a small payment. (I think about $6.00US) Google "enditall" and find everything you want to know about it. I found it to be the only way that I could ever get any of the Pinnacle stuff to work. I think if you search this forum you will also find several posts talking about it.
Kent

The running on forever used to happen all of the time with SB3.0, but since I went to MS4, it runs on until it gets to the edge of the screen, where it would need to scroll the timeline, and it stops and returns to the previous cursor start point.
I have XP Home/SP2.

Bryan.

Kent

Sorry (again) I should have been more specific - I don't understand where the "dropping frames" comes from. Do you mean the display appears to drop frames, or is this unrelated to the playing past the end problem?

Ian G.

kentm wrote:

"Enditall is a small program that lists and then allows you to shutdown or kill the running processes on your computer"

What's the difference between 'shutdown" and 'kill' a program?

"Shutdown" will allow you to deal with any outstanding prompts, save files etc., "kill" just terminates the process.

Ian G.

Ian, I run that enditall because one (or more) of those running processes causes the capture process to drop frames. I set the capture preferences to stop the capture on dropped frames and it does just that. After running the enditall, the dropped frames are literally eliminated.
And yes, that is unrelated to the running past the end of project.
Kent