Too much blank area at end of video

I just put together a "movie" that has video/audio/pictures all mixed in
together. I have just the way I want it and I burned it to a DVD.

The problem I noticed when I played the DVD is that there was a bunch of
blank video at the end.

I looked at the original video project and noticed there was, indeed, a
large section of the end nothing but blank area. The last piece in on
the storyboard was a jpg.

I figured I had inadvertently allowed that last jpg to have too long of
a duration. But that wasn't the problem. Even when I completely delete
the jpg, the blank area remains.

The movie is actually a little over 6 minutes in length, but the final
product is over 8 minutes. Very annoying when played on a DVD and I have
no idea how to get rid of this nearly 2 minutes of blank area.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks!

I know what your problem is, I figured it out when I was making my second
video ever some few months ago. The problem is that for some reason,
Microsoft made WMM NOT want to show any images that aren't PNG (in my case it
only showed the images that were PNGs). Unfortunately, I don't think there's
any way to fix it, unless you save the image as a PNG but if it's a JPG it
might not come out looking too good. Sorry, hope I helped.

"David Emerling" wrote:

> I just put together a "movie" that has video/audio/pictures all mixed in
> together. I have just the way I want it and I burned it to a DVD.
>
> The problem I noticed when I played the DVD is that there was a bunch of
> blank video at the end.
>
> I looked at the original video project and noticed there was, indeed, a
> large section of the end nothing but blank area. The last piece in on
> the storyboard was a jpg.
>
> I figured I had inadvertently allowed that last jpg to have too long of
> a duration. But that wasn't the problem. Even when I completely delete
> the jpg, the blank area remains.
>
> The movie is actually a little over 6 minutes in length, but the final
> product is over 8 minutes. Very annoying when played on a DVD and I have
> no idea how to get rid of this nearly 2 minutes of blank area.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> Thanks!
>

I was having a similar problem and this is what I found.

I expanded/magnified the storey board as much as I could and found little
snips of audio that were in the blank space. They were extremely small so
they did not play but these artifacts caused the blank "run on" time. Try
selecting all the audio after the end and make sure to delete. In addition
you might search the video and titles for similar artifacts.

One thing that may have caused this is me adding auido tracks that were
longer than the imported video and then trimming. May have not gotten all
the audio trimmed correctly the first time around.

"Kirvee" wrote:

> I know what your problem is, I figured it out when I was making my second
> video ever some few months ago. The problem is that for some reason,
> Microsoft made WMM NOT want to show any images that aren't PNG (in my case it
> only showed the images that were PNGs). Unfortunately, I don't think there's
> any way to fix it, unless you save the image as a PNG but if it's a JPG it
> might not come out looking too good. Sorry, hope I helped.
>
> "David Emerling" wrote:
>