Exporting a movie - adds blank space/time at the end. No xtra frames

jlmayor7 wrote on 7/29/2018, 11:04 PM

I am exporting a movie to MPEG-4. My timeline says I have 21:01 minutes but I shaved down the clips to 13:27. There are no gaps, no extra spaces, and no random frames/clips after my finished work (I have Video on T1, Audio on T2, separate audio on t3 AND music on T4 - simple video). Am I missing something to tell MEP to not include the blank space at the end?

Version MEP 2013 Premium. Thanks in advance!

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jlmayor7 wrote on 7/30/2018, 12:21 AM

So it seems that when I got to the Export Movie menu item under File, I can choose the 'Export selected range only' option and that works (after I create the range). When I got to the Export quick menu to upload directly to YouTube I do not get that option and I get the error:

"Sections were found in the move 'xxxxxx' which do not contain any image or movie material:

Number of areas detected: 1

Position of the longest range: 00:13:27:25 [the end of my actual movie clips]

If these areas are intentional... . "

My options are then to Ignore, Jump to empty section or Cancel.

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johnebaker wrote on 7/30/2018, 3:14 AM

@jlmayor7

The most likely cause is a stray fragment of a clip - zoom in at the time indicated where the empty section is, you may need to zoom until you can see individual frames and check all tracks for stray objects.

If there are none then try deleting any blank space after the last clip set the range marker as shown below then press Alt+Del, save the project - the error should now be gone.

HTH

John EB