OpenMicGuy

Thanks, that fixed it. I saw that "CLOSE GAP..." option but it was not clear what that would do. Close gaps within a track? I wondered, and certainly did not want that, jamming things together that should be overlayed etc. Where did that "gap" come from? I seem to recall at one point I slid an image or video off to the right temporarily, perhaps beyond the end point, before deleting or moving it back. I would not expect that to cause this issue, but is that it? I also had an issue where every time I added a clip to the sequence, it seemed it was also adding another tiny clip I had worked with earlier at the end, each and every time I added another clip. That problem eventually stopped, though. I don't think it was my error, it seemed like a bug in the program. Likewise, an attempt to zoom and crop one clip was a disaster, affecting every other clip in the sequence with an extreme zoom. Could not undo the zoom effect. Is there are a way to do that?? Finally discarded the clip and started the whole edit all over altogether. Still am new to VideoPad. Have used other editors, so not a total rookie at editing. Each editor a little (or a lot) different. Maybe I will figure out these other issues out yet, don't worry about them for now (unless you got some quick answers for me), or else if need be I will get back on the forum for help on this stuff later. Again, thanks.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_4YE29DJR0_Wo_ykZzkCS01GtLbyNXvh That is the Google Drive link to the project files. Not sure where the "envelope" for private sending is, but it really is nothing personal in the video. I should think the editor could have an option to set start and end points for rendering video edit exports. I have seen that in an audio editor, and would be useful in video, too.

I just exported a pretty basic video that should run 4 minutes and 7 seconds. The exported version has an extra 24 seconds of blank, black screen at the end. A second or two would be okay but this is ridiculous. There is absolutely nothing on the tracks beyond the 4 minute 7 second mark. I used 8.4 with this result, then upgraded to 8.15. Same result. Solution?