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Hi everyone; here's something related (in appearance) that perplexed me at first. Even after the fix Rui provided, one of my compositions was showing a discrepancy. The length of the composition didn't match where the clips in the tracks ended. In fact it was seven quarter notes later!

After several days of head scratching and trying this and that to locate the fault, I noticed a very fine and faint vertical line (one pixel wide, presumably) in one of the tracks. I managed to rubberband (select) it and voilà, a name for it popped up. Turns out it was actually a clip itself of presumably no length. Don't ask me how it slipped in, but it was clearly operator error. This was a drum track and probably I was copy/pasting some repetitive measures and failed to notice it when moving things around. I don't remember. If it isn't clear, I'm just an aging novice.

So my point is: it's possible to have a clip of zero or very short length beyond the end of the legitimate composition. If your eyesight is lousy or the video monitor rather poor (both of which apply to me), then it's easy to miss. This will give a faulty length report, and furthermore the play head will continue to that point.

Thomas Henry