How To Add Black Video In Premiere Pro

[Garoa Wolff]

Iedit a video and when I'm done and wanting to export soon, I notice problems with nested sequences. I know there have been a lot of similar, solved cases, but none of the explanations helped for me. It's not like Premiere can't find the clips, just random parts of those nested sequences are blank. If I click on the sequences that are making problems, the clips inside look perfectly fine. This has costed me countless hours over the years.

Since I haven't found any way to fix it, there is one way that in my particular case "solves" it. Basically I go into the nested sequence and render the stuff in there, then I replace the sequence with the now rendered clip. Do that, in case somebody has this exact scenario too.

Happens to me a lot too and it's a pain in the ass, nesting / multicam areas of Premiere pro can get pretty buggy annoyingly, have you swapped to software only rendering? It's not really helpful considering it slows down a sh*t ton but it's better than nothing.

Two years later and there's no fix to this annoying issue. The only workaround after scouring forums & trying all the suggestions, is that I have to export out the nested sequence (at the same quality as original footage), then drop it back into Premiere and work with a flattened clip. What a giant waste of time... so so annoying, especially when you're on a deadline. Wish Adobe would tend to these things rather than bring out new fangled features we really don't need right now.

Non of the recommendations I've seen on YouTube such as changing the rendering settings or Google Chrome GPU fix have worked for me. Weird thing I have noticed is that when I change the opacity, the clip appears on my screen (even when lowered) so I decided to go into the nest and add an adjustment layer and move the exposure up by 0.1 and the nest appeared on screen again ( with very little change) still very frustrating but it's the only thing that has helped. I'm not sure if proxy's are a reason why or maybe the cable from my hardrive is faulty ( I'm not editing off SSD)

Dont know if this helps but for me in this specific scenario, it did. I had a ton of 2 frame clips for a stop motion sequence. Then I nested all the clips so that I could speed ramp manipulate everything. After I made the speed changes, I went into the sequence and added some additional frames. The nested clip then showed black screen at the end even though, there vere video clips available. The logic behind it seemingly was: after the speed ramp, te nested sequence was "shorter" and even though I added some clips and stretched the nested clip to its full lenght, premiere still thought there were no clips.

Solution: I delited the speed changes all togather, then stretched the sequence to its full lenght and then added the speed changes.

I have this exact same that's suddenly just started on a project that I've been working on for months. Nothing has changed with respect to my system or media, everything is as it was when it was working fine. So it's very strange it should just happen like this. It's also the same on similar projects for other clients.

Thank you for speaking up on this. I hope more and more affected people comment on this. This is not ok for a paid premium program and should be fixed. This can ruins weeks, if not months of editing for users like us.

I've recently had this issue after adding captions to the video. Not sure if the captions are what triggered it or not. I went through every clip (it's an hour video!) and disabled and enabled each one manually. That was the only way to get the V1 back.

This is happening to me on my M1 Max Studio with 64 GB ram/10 cores and 24 core GPU/1tb storage with latest version of Premiere and Mac OS. Screen is just black. Works on my co-worker's iMac just fine. You cannot toggle between GPU and CPU rendereing on a Silicon based Mac. It's greyed out. I was editing this project with no issues for a week...then the black frame. At a total loss.

I arrived at this problem because I used the Moment Camera App to shoot a video. When I brought it into Premiere it came in upside down (which was a quick fix - vertical flip), but the other issue that should have tipped me off from the get go is that i could only see the video while the sequence was playing. As soon as i hit stop, the screen was black. And then when exported via ME the export itself was a black.

Thanks for the info. That media is probably the worst format in terms of performance regardless of your computer. As an editor, I would transcode on ingest to ProRes LT or 422 and work that way or shoot with a slightly less intensive format. Sorry about the frustration.

I believe it has to do with the Intel CPU which has a feature in the iGPU called Quick Sync. Quick Sync can take a great deal of the processing load off the CPU and GPU when it comes to H.264 decoding. Couple that with hardware based H.264 decoding and GPU effects handling from the installed GPU, and that might explain why these older Macs operate better with certain formats. They've got a one-two punch when it comes to H.264 handling, especially the most non-performant variant of H.264: 4K 10-bit 4:2:2.

I understand that the expectation for the new Macs with Apple Silicon is that they should be powerful enough to handle these formats. I agree. Feel free to file a bug here. I hope the team can find a better way to support these non-performant formats on Apple Silicon in the future. For now, if I were in your current situation, I'd transcode on ingest. Sorry for the frustration on that.

This is a known issue with PP and has been happening to my both on my work iMac Pro and Windows machine at my home.

PP seems to really have trouble with layering graphics from Essential Graphics.

Frustrating that such a basic feature like captioning is not stable from a large company like Adobe.

Thanks for the bug report. It's been a while since you filed this bug. Are you still seeing the issue? I'll move this report to the Discussions forum while I await your response. Sorry for the frustration.

Video products should include a title graphic and black video as bookends. Bookends must contain a 5-second title graphic followed by 2 seconds of black video before your runtime, and 5 seconds of black video after your runtime for editing and documentation purposes.

If you have one track, a simple single ended transition or Opacity effect is fine. With multiple tracks, I create a black video in the File > New section and put it on the very top track. Just keyframe it from zero opacity to 100%.

Well, it is possible to add fade to black on each and every track by way of adding a single ended transition, but that would be a hassle and it probably would not give you the result you were after. I suppose they could add an effect that you would add to the top layer, but that has never been requested by enough people I suppose.

That project has a sequence with Black video faded in, and one with black video faded out, and others with the same thing happening with a White matte. It also contains my logo and various other things I use in almost every project.

If you plan to create film output from a sequence,you may want to add a counting leader. A counting leader helps aprojectionist verify that audio and video are working properly andare synchronized. You can create and customize a universal countingleader to add to the beginning of a project. The leader is 11 secondslong.

Some audio workflows must be calibrated at a specific tone level. The default level of the 1-kHz tone is -12 dB referenced to 0 dBFS. You can customize the tone level to match your audio workflow by choosing Clip > Audio Options > Audio Gain with a clip selected. If you select the bars and tone clip in the Project panel, you set the default gain level for new clip instances. If you select a clip in a Timeline panel, you change the level for that clip instance only.

Empty areas of a track appear black if no other visible clip areas are present on underlying video tracks. If necessary, you can also create clips of opaque black video for use anywhere in a sequence. A black video clip behaves as a still image. To create a clip of a different color, use a color matte. (See Create a color matte.)

You can change the default duration of black video clips and other still image clips in the General pane of the Preferences dialog box. For more information, see Change the default duration for still images.

I have completed my edit in Premiere and used a couple of "Dip to Black" effects as transitions between different moments of my performance. Everything looked great and I rendered the project out. After watching the render, I noticed that on every fade to black transition, a bunch of flickering lines would appear on the white wall behind me.

I did learn that I can replicate the issue just by setting In and Out points on the timeline and rendering inside Premiere i.e by going to Sequence > Render In to Out. The flickering lines then appear when I preview the timeline. They do not appear if I haven't pressed "Render In to Out". This cut my troubleshooting time down considerably, as I didn't have to keep exporting footage.

If your gradient is more than 256 pixels long on screen, then there aren't going to be enough possible values to give each pixel a unique value. Imagine that the gradient went over the entire screen. In a HD picture this would be 1920 pixels that you have to colour with only 256 possible colours. So the colours will have to repeat - roughly 8 pixels will have to share each value. This means you get bands of colour 8 pixels wide, which will be obvious to viewers (making matters worse is the fact that there's an optical illusion that causes human vision to exaggerate steps in a gradient).

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