Blank Space at end of timeline in Media Composer

[Richard Sanchez]

Open your title tool. Don’t type any text, set your BG color to black and create the title media. Instant black slug.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Shane Ross]

You misunderstand. She wants to get rid of black at the end. Unless I misunderstand.

Is there black at the tail of your sequence?

Shane
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[Richard Sanchez]

Exactly. But since you can’t insert filler at the end, like you can at the beginning, you can use this as a work around to create black slug, and throw it at the end.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Neil Goodman]

i think she wants to take out the filler at the end, not add it, in which case one way to do it is add an edit across all the tracks then extract it out.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Cammie Noel]

Thanks . yes that’s it no black at the end… but how again? How do i extract the filler ? Still confused. Have figured out many things since my last post, and it has gone well . This i still do not understand. Thanks very much.I want all of this space in the timeline after the video gone.

[William Busby]

[Cammie Noel] “Tried marking in and out points for export but the blank space went along for the ride…”

You probably didn’t have “use marks” selected in the export settings, which will export the whole sequence regardless what your I/O marks are.

[Ricky Barrow]

In the timeline, after your last video, mark IN, press end on keyboard mar OUT, select all tracks, use yellow extract/cut and the last frame of video in your timeline should now be at the end.
Also, if you have a mark IN and Out of your video for export, simply do as William suggested and in the export box, check use marks, then only the section of the timeline from IN to OUT will be exported.

Ricky

[Cammie Noel]

Thanks everyone, I had initially tried to use in and out points and neglected to check the correct box…such a simple thing yet i missed it. I did check the appropriate box and it finally worked correctly. THANK YOU !!

[Cammie Noel]

Yes that is correct i did not. Finally saw that. such a simple thing

[Michael Hancock]

If you don’t know, you can also duplicate your export settings, rename them, and customize them. I always have an export setting saved as Quicktime Reference Use Marks that ignores the track selections but uses my In/Out marks. Then I duplicate it and make a Quicktime Reference Use Marks and Tracks where it exports just the tracks and marks. The third is Quicktime Reference No Marks or Tracks.

When I export I just pick the one I want and don’t have to change it every time. Works with any export settings, so customize away.

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Michael Hancock
Editor