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March 31, 2025

Clip becomes black whenever any graphic is place above it

  • March 31, 2025
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I have multiple clips in a project that become black whenever any graphic is placed overtop of them. They do not go black if another video clips are placed above at different opacity only text. Can't find anything unique / different about the footage. Text has no fill / background enabled. Footage is 1920x1080 prores 422 from a Canon 60D dslr.

Is this a bug anyone has come across? 

 

Troubleshooting steps taken with no result:

-new sequences

-new project files

-closing & reopening projects

-opening projects / sequences in premiere beta

-reimporting footage

-enabling / disabling clips 

-nesting footage before adding graphics

 

Working in premiere 25.1.0 on a 2021 Macbook Pro M1 MAX 32gb Ram 24 core GPU

12 replies

Inspiring
March 31, 2025

hi @jamieclarke apologies thought I had provided the necesscary info. TBH in looking over the how do I write a bug report guidelines I'm not sure what info is missing that you need? I'll post in the outlined format for clarity:

Issue - clip becomes black whenever any graphic is put overtop
Steps to reproduce - my clip is on video track 1. Whenever I try to add any graphic overtop it becomes black for exactly the duration of the graphic.
Expected result - the text should appear overtop of the clip, not render the clip on video track 1 completely black 
Actual result - the clip beneath the graphic becomes totally black with only the graphic visible (see screen recording from original post)
Adobe Premiere Pro version - 25.1.0
Operating system - macOS 14.7.3 
Video format - prores422 1920x1080 mov 24fps

 

To answer your questions:

-deleting the render files in the area has no effect, the issue persists

-the clip is nested. When I take the underlaying clip out of the nest, placing graphics overtop does not make the clip black, seemingly fixing the issue, HOWEVER: I need to nest the clip in order to apply certain effects to it. Why would text render a nested clip totally black and not an unnested clip? This appears to be the bug. Let me know if I need to repost/rephrase my original post to be about this specifically.

 

 

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 31, 2025

Hi @knbstewart -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How do I write a bug report?

 

It looks like you are trying to add the text over an area that has been rendered.  Can you try selecting the menu bar under Sequence and click "Delete Render Files".   Are you adding the text over a nest?
Sorry for the frustration.