Why won’t my whole video export?

[taygriff]

I edited a video that ended up being 20 minutes long, I exported it how I always export my videos. When I look at the video file it says it’s the whole 20 minute video but when I uploaded it to YouTube it only uploaded two and a half minutes, so I went back to the exported video file on my computer and watched it and it also ends at 2:33. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? I’m exporting in H.264, matching video source. I’ve exported videos this long before and I’ve never had a problem, and I’ve also deleted like 10 GB worth of stuff off my computer to download this file, which is only 1532 MB. Can someone please help, I really put a lot of time and effort into this video and I really don’t want to scrap it. Please and thank you    

[Graeme Bull]

My first thought is if your in and out points for export are the full video?

[Ann Bens]

Go to the export settings left tab: bottom where it says Source Range and set that to Entire Sequence.

[taygriff · Accepted solution]

Thanks to the both of you so much for helping, I change the VBR from 2 passes to 1 passes and it exported the whole video. I’m not really sure why that changed anyrhing, but if this ever happens again I will definitely remember to check that the entire sequence is selected, thank you guys so much!!

[KVH MarCom]

Woo hoo! Thanks for this. I had no idea where to look! 🙂