Help with VideoStudio8 cutting off movie

jenn7600 · Post by **jenn7600** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:22 pm

Hi! I'm new to this forum and I am looking for some help with VideoStudio8. I created a video using all still pictures and set it to music. I found some more pictures I wanted to add so I added another song. For some reason when I burn the video, it ends where it would have ended before I added the extra song. The project timeline shows that it is over 16 minutes long but when I burn the video it ends at 13 min. 55 seconds, which is where it ended before I added the song. Is there something I did wrong and is there a way to fix this without having to redo the entire thing? If there is any extra info you need to help me with this problem let me know.

Thanks!

Jen

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:23 pm

Not sure what your workflow was or what else you might have done, but try this.

With your project in the timeline, you add the extra photos and music to them. Then you go to Share > Create Video File > DVD. This will produce a DVD compatible mpeg-2 of your whole project, including the extra photos and music.

Then you save your project, and go to File > New Project. This will clear the timeline. Don't both about giving the new project a name -- the objective was only to empty the timeline.

Then select Share > Create DVD. This will open the burning module. Insert your new mpeg-2 into the burning timeline. Make sure 'do not convert compliant mpeg files' is ticked in the Project Settings icon in the bottom left of the burning screen. Build your menus and burn.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:30 pm

Welcome to the forums,

When you created a video, did you do this before adding the additional photos and songs? If so did you create (share>create video file) another video after adding them?

Jen, when you are working within VS, you are working on a project file, hence the name VideoStudio Project, or VSP. There are no images, videos, etc., in this file, just a bunch of instructions. When you are finished, and go to the Share step, and create a video, then all those instructions tell the program what parts of the video, what images, effects, on and on, it needs to create a video.

So now when you decide you want to add to that video, that has already been created from your project, and you open your *.vsp file (project), you will need to create another video file (Share>Create Video File). It can not update a video that you have already created.

Hopefully that makes sense..

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:34 pm

I remember having a similar problem once, and I did have to start-over.

In fact, I had to start-over with a new project name. It just wouldn't "forget" the previous length!

(I'm not sure if it was VS8... it might even have been Movie Factory or DVD Workshop...)

jenn7600 · Post by **jenn7600** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:26 am

Thanks for the responses! It is rendering right now and I've got my fingers crossed!!! I'll let you know if it worked.

vidoman...I had to read it a couple times but I do understand what you mean.

I've been using this program for a while and love it. It is by far the best I have found.

jenn7600 · Post by **jenn7600** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:38 am

I'm happy to report that your solution worked. I just finished watching the video and it burned the entire thing. I had no clue that adding to it after I had already burned it would be a problem. Lesson learned! Thanks for all you help!
Jen