[Zynewave]

Thanks for the video. You’re not doing anything wrong. It’s just that the render within punch range is meant to work a little differently. What you expect is that the underlying track bounce file will be the size of the punch range. In fact, the underlying bounce file is always the full length of the arrangement. If you for example work with a long track with heavy plugins that takes a long time to render, you can use the render within punch range to just render the part on the timeline that you are currently working on, thereby greatly reducing the time required to render.

Instead of saving the bounce, reimporting it and cropping it, you could use the “move bounced audio to new track”, split the event on the new track, and use the “convert to unique cropped copy” on the fragment.