I have a brand new SSD drive, lots of disk space a great mother board and ram and a brand new install of windows 10 pro. This export should be screaming and instead it's slow as cold tar. Excuse me but can we rule out that the problem is the computer and focus on the problems of the software here? The computer is good, fast, works well for everything else. Somewhere in this software there have to be settings or something that impact the export performance and operations. That's what I need to understand and not go off on a some wild goose chase regarding my hardware and operating system performance.
This editing project is minimal, it's only a few short audio clips with one static image for the video.
When I export video file (because I don't know how to just export an .mp3 on this version 7.25vp) it plods along until it reaches about 99.6% complete then it stalls there while the "video position" starts slowly going up. I don't have the patience to sit around for 3 hours while it tries to do a 15 minute video export that only has one picture and some voice clips.
So how does this software operate? does it export the audio first and then the video data? In previous versions a similar export with audio mostly only the audio would race to 99% in about 7 seconds then it would pause at 99% or so for a few moments and boom it would be finished. I have used video pad for years. Not so with the 7.25 upgraded version. Something is whacky! Can we get tech support to the bottom of this now please?
So what can I do to get these voice clips edited together? I wouldn't even add the image except that my previous experience with past vp editions is that they require some kind of visual image in order to export a video even you just want the audio file. Is this not the case with the 7.25vp professional?
I wonder also how to tell the track that the content ends at about 0:14:52.485. In previous versions I could pull the right edge of the track over to the final point but this version insists on having blank space out there. Is that messing it up?
This whole project is less than 15 minutes long and there is no video really it's just an image, ONE image. I should add no transitions no effects nothing, just one image. So it's not like it's got a whole ton of data to process. ten minutes later it tells me that the video position is something like 00:04:35.000 seriously!!!!????????????? WTF!
what I have tried so far...
Ok I changed the compression from 264 to mpeg and after 5 minutes of exporting the export reached that 99.5% barrier and the video position is continuing to count up way beyond where the video and audio ended. It apparently thinks this is a file with something else out there beyond the end point? ?????
second attempt: I closed the project and reopened it, then I removed the last audio clip and the image entirely. I deleted the video track. I only left the other audio clips that extend to 0:09:33.978 on the timeline and I am now exporting... 3 minutes of exporting it reached 99.5% and now it's continuing to extend the video position far beyond the end again with no finalization in sight.
third attempt: I opened a new project, only imported the audio file I want to edit, I didn't make any edits I just did a test export. it reached 99.5% in 24 seconds and then continued to spool on as if there was something else beyond oblivion.
So it appears this version 7.25 just doesn't know when to stop and finalize.
attempt 4: I hid the video track on output so only the audio track should be exporting. again as before it continues to spool far beyond the end of the audio data.
The inability to export renders the program useless.
Please advise.