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4:38:15, huh? Maybe those Martians really are trying to communicate with us! 
I've attached a copy of the screen prompt in PD that I think caused the problem for me. Or may it was because -- as suggested in one of the threads you referenced -- I did "Save As.." and re-wrote over an existing project file.
Whatever the reason, I'm so glad this is now working. I never thought that my non-fancy Dell laptop would be able to edit video with such precision. ProDirector has impressed me! And what amazing support from the Community.
Thanks!
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I don't know of any, but there's a long history of problems caused/experienced only at specific timeline locations, like this stubborn issue from 6 years ago that occurred exactly at the 4:38:15 mark in a 60fps project.
I'm not aware of that prominant display - is it on the Welcome-type screen where you're asked something about choosing to enter the "full feature editor"?
Using File Open or launching PD with it set to open the last project are far and away the most common ways I'm aware of to open projects, so anything that says to drag a whole project onto the timeline will cause this exact issue if there's already an open project. Can you take a screenshot of that message and attach it?
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Thank you @optodata!
The project rendered successfully! Yes, the issue was that I had multiple "nested" projects. (Wow -- my first day on PowerDirector and I was already nesting projects. Inadvertently.)
When I was rendering my project, I was actually rendering the "main" project -- which was the leftmost tab and was 3:34 long. The many, many tabs to the right of that were nested projects and I was always working in the rightmost tab, thinking it was the most recent. Every attempt I made to "Produce", though, was just a rendering of the "main" tab on the left.
In the end, 2 solutions worked:
- Pasted my complete edit (which was in the rightmost tab) into the "main project" (leftmost) tab. The next time the project rendered, it was the full length of the project.
- Your solution, @optodata. Copied my nested tab containing the complete edit and pasted it into a new project, then saved the project in a different folder. No more tabs. Thank you.
2 questions remain:
- The original poster (@zombibex) also hit a render error at exactly 3:34. Is there something special about that duration? Something specific to multiple tabs and nesting? Maybe just a coincidence.
- Why does the edit interface in PowerDirector so prominently display the option to "Click here or drag the selected project to a track" as though that's the usual way to open a project? Dragging my project to a track seems to be what created all the nesting. What's a poor newbie to do? By the way, what IS the correct way to work on an existing project? Maybe just File -- Open Project. No dragging.
Thanks also for the recommendation to update my drivers. This was well overdue and certainly didn't hurt.
With appreciation,
ArV
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Here's the other thread that has the same issue.
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Thanks optodata and tomasc:
I will look into your suggestions about updating my video driver and other updates.
Meanwhile, I'll also attach 3 screen shots:
- the first shows what my multiple tabs look like. Are these nested tabs? How can I get rid of them?
- the second screen shot shows my preview window parked at around 5 minutes. You can see there is an image there. The timeliine is populated beyone the 9-minute mark
- the third shot is the render window, paused around the 5-minute mark. It's a black screen that stays black for another 4 minutes
Note that the first 3:34 rendered fine.
Thanks for your help with this,
ArV
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Your video driver is almost 3 years old. This is the latest driver from Intel (15.40.45.5126), however many people have trouble updating drivers on Dell systems that aren't "officially supported" by Dell, so you should visit their support website and get the most recent video driver (20.19.15.5063 from last Sept) for your Latitude ES250.
There also seem to be some urgent updates for your system and the Detect Drivers button will probably be the easiest way to make sure your system is fully updated.
As tomasc mentioned, screenshots will be key to understanding, although from your description you seem to have nested projects on your timeline. There have been other users recently who somehow ended up with the same situation but hadn't done it intentionally. Take a look at Screenshot (3).png in this post and see if that's showing the same tabs as your timeline.
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Hi:
I'm having exactly the same problem as the OP (@zombibex) -- amazingly, also occurring at 3:34! I am running PD-18 Essential and my DxDiag file is attached.
I have a 9-minute movie -- straight cuts with a bunch of titles -- with 2 video tracks, 2 audio tracks and 1 title track. It plays all the way through in Preview mode.
When I render the movie, I get an excellent first 3:34. The remaining ~6 minutes renders as black and silent.
Any ideas?
Also, the is my first time trying PD. I still don't get why my timeline has all those tabs. Many of them look like earlier versions of my video but with the tracks all collapsed. (Interestingly, the timeline on those other tabs abruptly cuts off at 3:34. Why?)
Thanks so much for your attention to this,
ArV
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You'll need to post your technical specs in order for the techies here to try and understand what's going on. On a very simplistic level, does your computer have sufficient disk space to record your project?
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