Vegas Pro 16 (trial) - too long output video

g4Rneck wrote on 11/9/2018, 4:40 PM

I'm testing the trial version of it (considering update from v14 because of much faster rendeing with GPU) and I noticed strange thing - I created two videos 4k 60fps with different bitrates. In the trial version the video can have 2 minutes max + we have some extra squares with VEGAS text on the screen.

After rendering I got videos which are much longer than 2 minutes (~8 and 11). One of them is unreadable (higher bitrate), the second contains 2 minutes of my video and 6 minutes with black screen (and sometimes we can see the square with text).

I rendered much shorter videos without problems.

In this case I added 2nd video track (green screen with some data, 30fps) - the 2-min. part looks ok, on the track window, after full zoom out, I can olny see 2 minutes of video.

Is it an "feature" related to the trial version only?

Comments

set wrote on 11/9/2018, 4:47 PM

Yes, trial version limits the rendering duration.

g4Rneck wrote on 11/9/2018, 5:16 PM

The 2 minutes limit is not a problem for me - but why I'm getting the videos having extra 6 minutes of black screen with the watermark?

When I just tried to render video longer than 2 minutes, it was not possible to start it but Vegas is somehow generating output with extra crap.

Len Kaufman wrote on 11/9/2018, 6:01 PM

I had that happen (at least) once. Closer examination of the timeline found a piece of a file way out there beyond the actual video I was creating. If you hit the button that takes you to the "end" of the video. You may find it. I even had it happen when I had designated a "loop region" with nothing in it beyond the actual video.

Qoncussion wrote on 11/10/2018, 11:09 AM

I had that happen (at least) once. Closer examination of the timeline found a piece of a file way out there beyond the actual video I was creating. If you hit the button that takes you to the "end" of the video. You may find it. I even had it happen when I had designated a "loop region" with nothing in it beyond the actual video.

This would have been my guess as well. I've gotten in the habit of creating a region across my final videos - select the region, then check the option to render just the selected region. This allows me to leave a few alternate scenes at the end of the timeline and swap them out after reviewing the completed video.