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Clips coming over as black on timeline
Hi,
Not sure what’s happened here but one minute everything with my project was fine but now when I playback my project, some of the clips on the timeline are showing as solid black, but with the audio intact.
I don’t remember pressing anything that may have ‘hidden’ the footage. When I scrub the particular clip it shows up in the preview window but when I play with project with the playhead, the clip, and a few others on the timeline, are just black.
Please help!! 🙂
Thanks in advance
Matt
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36 Replies
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Open the timeline index and make sure your video based roles are on (checked).
Jeremy
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I saw this weird deal also Matt.
I thought it was a bug. Never saw it before the last update.
I think I toggled between enable by selecting the black clip and hitting the v key and got it to come back.
I have not been able to repeat it to narrow it down.
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Thank you for your help guys and glad to hear it’s not some weird bug!! I’ll try those out and sure one will work. Thanks again. Matt
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Sorry Matt, I didn’t explain that well.
What I meant to say was, I’m not really certain it’s “not” a bug. I’m not really sure what it is. I would need to see it happen again.
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Hi both,
Well, here’s the thing! I’ve tried both your approaches and yeah, in the timeline index Video roles is checked but still the clip is playing black!!
It is a compound clip if that makes any difference although the clip after it, also a compound clip, works fine!!
Do you have any more suggestions please – I’m really scratching my head on this one!!
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Hi, I thought I’d paste an image of the problem if this helps. As I say, shows up fine with scrubber just not when playing!!
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[Matt Surf] “Well, here’s the thing! I’ve tried both your approaches and yeah, in the timeline index Video roles is checked but still the clip is playing black!! “
The Role should be checked if you want playback, just for future reference.
I checked out the screen grab, thanks. If you open that compound up “in timeline” what’s inside of it? (Right click, choose “open in timeline”). Right now it is only showing as an audio clip (green).
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Hi (thanks)
I’ve opened in timeline and it’s showing as audio and video clip OK.
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Out of interest, the audio does still play on playback, just not the video
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Weirdly, it’s now happening on about 80% of my clips – some of them compound clips but all of them on the main timeline. Do you think it may be preferences?
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