Exported song is too long...

When I exported my song on Home Studio the wave file had more than 2 minutes of silence added to the end of it...the song doesn't end after it's done. I think using "automation" caused this...the blue automation lines run far past where the tracks end. I tried to delete the portion of these lines after the tracks by selecting them and using "Cut" but it wouldn't delete them.
How can you make Home Studio know the song is over? I don't find anything in "help" that explains this.

It sounds like you are highlighting the track numbers to select the tracks you want to mix down/export. Try highlighting the individual clips instead. This should do the trick....

Rob

Also, use the track manager to make sure there aren't any hidden tracks you may have forgotten about. If these tracks are not archived, or if they run past the end of your song, when you use the "select all" function, these tracks get selected also, even if they are muted/hidden.......You get the track manager by hitting the "M" key on your keyboard.....

It's possible to do that, however if the project extends with audio tracks in the mix, then as a result of that you're unnecessarily increasing the size of the project. Sometimes the culprit is not that obvioius. Once I spent half an hour trying to figure out why the project was so long and there was one archived track (which was hidden) which was causing that.

I keep having this problem also. I have no hidden or archived files,no markers or flags out toward the end. As King Wille mentioned have dotted lines from some envolopes going out to the end. Could that be the culprit?
When I export the file I Edit - Select - None before I File - Export - Audio, I get dead space at the end of the song.

Exporting selected tracks works but, selecting tracks with alot of clips can be time consuming and exporting to a master to be trimmed seems like an extra step.
I have a couple of questions that might help me understand this issue.
Is there a way to select all the clips in a track without clicking on each one?
What does the dotted line at the end (and sometimes in the middle) of an envolope mean?

Enjoy
McJoe

What I always do is create Start Export and End Export markers in all my projects. Then when I'm ready to export I do Crtl-A (select all tracks), go to the marker view and click Start Export, then Shift-click End Export. Now if you Export Audio you just get the selected part of the timeline

What I always do is create Start Export and End Export markers in all my projects

Yet anouther work around, but start and end export markers sound easier than exporting then trimming.
Dave has a good point on why I don't want to select a bunch of clips.

I could use the work around but I think if anyone wants to persue this thread I would like to solve this mystery.

I selected all midi tracks and opened the event view. I looked at the end and found no times that were past the end of the song time.

I should note that the scroll bar at the bottom of the track view is only about 1/2 the way across when it get to the end of the song. I can keep scrolling thru a lot of blank stuff.
If I hit hte "go to end" button next to the play button I go to the end of the last clip.

Is this just a software glitch?

Enjoy
McJoe

If it helps any, this happens to me all the time and yes, it's aggravating! The only way I've found to trim off that silence is to do it after I've converted the tracks to audio. I'll be watching this thread to see if there's another way. Glad you brought this up!

Clipping the mixed export file will have to do for now.
For anyone else who is try to fix this issue, when I View-Navigator, no events are shown past where the song ends but I am able to scroll much further into empty space. Also when I play the file on a CD player there is a long silance after the song.

This might be worth suggesting as a cure to this problem if anyone is scratching their head having tried previous suggestions on how to solve the mystery of the unacceptably long export:
 
I just had a totally dumb moment... after 20 minutes of frustration and nearly throwing the computer out of the window because export was taking that long, i suddenly realised i was exporting to a usb flash drive plugged into my computer, instead of to my internal SSD, or external 7200rpm HD as i normally do. Changing the files destination to my external HD instead of the USB stick was the cure. What was taking 20 mins to get to only about 15% completion happened within the thoroughly more acceptable 20 seconds!
 
Hope this helps anyone who may have made the same mistake.
 
 
 

Had this happen yesterday, turns out there was a tiny tiny sliver of a clip, barely visible, probably left behind from some editing that wound up far out from the end of the song somehow, so expanded it and deleted it and problem fixed.  treesha