[Matt Smith]

Perhaps there is a stray clip somewhere after your desired sequence has ended? I have found in the past that even with my in and out points set, if there is a random audio clip or something way out in the boondocks of the timeline, it will include that clip at the end, with all the black in between.

Smitherd, Geek of Many Shades

[Matt Smith]

Not precisely. All I want to do is crop in a nonsquare shape to cut around the drummer’s cymbal.

Here’s the specific situation. The guitarist’s neck overlaps the drummer’s ride cymbal in the video, and I want to crop the guitarist’s frame into a non-square shape to crop “around” the cymbal and eliminate the crossover. Pictures are enclosed.

https://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q113/GibsonFanboy/Picture2.png
https://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q113/GibsonFanboy/Picture1.png

As you can see, their crop squares overlap and make compositing difficult. If I could crop “around” the drummer’s cymbal it would be perfect, but I can’t. The guitar’s neck keeps passing over the cymbal, which means I can’t overlay the cymbal on top of the guitar track.

I feel like I’m not explaining this very well.