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No Black Space In Video
Hi,
I’ve tried to research this problem, but nothing has come up.
Basically…I have 1.5 seconds of black in the beginning of my video, and then 2 seconds of black at the end of my video. My video is obviously in between the two clips.
When I export the video and either put it on the internet, encore, or anything…the “black spaces” are gone and it shows a freeze frame of the first frame for whenever there should be black.
I have no idea why this is happening, and it continues to happen multiple times. It’s really bothering me. Any help and input is greatly appreciated!!!!
-Stephen
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11 Replies
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Blank spaces in the timeline is not a good idea. Stretch both ends of your clips to fill the blank spaces and then use opacity keyframes to make them transparent.
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Well, maybe I should have clarified better. There are no “spaces” in the video. When there is black i either have video there with the opacity all the way down, or I have a black video piece that I stick in where I want black video. The weird thing is that when I render it, wherever there is black, it doesn’t show up. It’s like Premier recognizes black video and says “we can’t have black video in here” and then replaces it with a still frame of the 1st frame.
Any ideas as to why?
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I feel your pain.
I started a new project in CS3, imported a 34 minute clip, selected a 2 minute section, inserted to timeline with 1.5 seconds of “Black Video” at each end and exported for DVD. The Export progress bar indicated 65,000 frames! I stopped it and checked the timeline and it showed just the 2 minute clip, in fact the visible timeline extended only to 12 minutes! It did then export the entire 34 minutes with no black at either end and no poster frames either.Opened the same project in CS4 with no changes and exported as expected.
It seems CS3 has issues with black video??
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Then went back to the CS3 project, replaced the Black Video with a black.bmp and exported as expected.
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Hmmm. I think I’ll have to try the black.bmp
I should have clarified though….I’m using after effects 6.5 (I know, I’m way behind in the times but a poor college student, haha).
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Probably a stupid question but… are you exporting the entire timeline, or just the work area?
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What do you mean when you say the entire timeline or just the work area?
The way I export is by going to File >> Export >> Adobe Media Encoder (I’m pretty sure it’s called that, I don’t have it in front of me at the moment).
Would that be considered exporting the entire timeline? Which one is better when it comes to the entire timeline or just the work area?
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The Work Area is defined by the yellow bar directly on top of the timeline. It has handles that you can adjust to increase or decrease its length. (like if you wanted to render a small portion of your timeline, you can adjust these to fit over the clips needed)
Also, when you click File >> export >> movie, there is a choice to export just the work area, or the entire timeline. I’m just wondering if the black areas are included in the work area if your choosing export work area.
Let me ask you to clarify something. Are you saying that Premiere is replacing the 1.5 seconds of black with 1.5 sec of a still frame? Or is the 1.5 sec of black just being truncated altogether?
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Hmmmm, I know the black area is included under the yellow bar. The reason for why I don’t go to File >> Export >> Movie is because I want to compress the file (and from my understanding there isn’t a compression option unless you go to File >> Export >> Adobe Media Encoder?)
As far as the replacing the black goes….it does not take it out altogether. The 1.5 seconds of black is replaced by 1.5 seconds of a still from the 1st frame.
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Ahh, ok. So it really has nothing to do with the work area.
But why not export as a microsoft dv AVI, and let encore do the encoding. From what I heard, Adobe Media Encoder in 6.5 is terrible.
It would be interesting to see if an avi has the same problem. Try a 10 sec test clip at the beginning, using your workarea.
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