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Black frame over start of every cut
Hello,
I’m at the final stage of completing my feature length documentary film and I’ve run into a snag. I’m trying to lay a letterbox image over the footage. The footage was shot in letterbox, but since I’ve been adjusting levels and coloring, I need to lay a new, clean letterbox image over it.
So I exported a photoshop PSD document which is just black bars on top and bottom, sized to my specifications, and placed it in Premiere Pro on it’s own layer above all the other video layers.
It looks good, until you play the film and come to a visual cut. For some reason, it blacks out a single frame at the start of each new cut. So whenever the film cuts to a new shot, a black blip appears over the entire frame. I thought perhaps this was just a problem with the Premiere Pro monitor, but when I exported a one minute test, the AVI also had the black frames.
What is wrong here? Is this just a premiere bug? I am using Premiere 1.5, and I don’t want to export an entire AVI just to bring it into After Effects 6.5 and letterbox out again. I don’t want to lose quality and I am not sure After Effects will handle letterboxing the entire 2 hour film anyway. I can just foresee a long night of crashes and failed attempts. Is there any way to fix this in Premiere?
Any info here would be appreciated.
Thanks so much!
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2 Replies
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When you position your clips in the timeline, do you have snap turned on when you move then around so they snap exactly to the endpoint of the other clip? Also, I’ve had instances where I accidently snapped to something else; ie: cursor, markers. Try pulling the clips apart and using the ripple delete command to see if it clears it up. Just a thought, but other than that, I dont know.
Richard
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Delete the PSD letterbox and use Premiere Pro’s letterbox template to see if it solves your issue.
1. Create a new titler
2. Go to title templates
3. Select the letterbox template.Also make sure that there is no space between your cuts.
Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
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