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Suddenly black frames at the end of trastitions

Forum|Forum|21 days ago
March 31, 2026
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I’ve started to get black frames at the end of transitions. I know that there was this problem in Premiere 24, but I have never had this issue, but now I do in Premiere 26.0.2.

It happens randomly and I could not define the circumstances.
It happens bot with third party transitions and the native ones. I first saw the black frames in the Production crate transitions, so I emailed them but they could not reproduce it. Now it turns out that it can happen with Premiere’s own transitions like dissolve or ex-FilmImpact, Push for example (you will see it in the video below, that it happens with Push bit BorisFX transitions immediately have no issue, and thew issue comes back when I apply another Premiere Pro transition)
It happens with normal clips, nested or time-remapped ones.

Here’s how it looks:

Steps to reproduce: start Premiere, work on a project, add a transition.

Pr 26.0.2, Win11 25h2, RTX 4080 with latest NV drivers, i7-14700K

AndrewTheGreatAuthor

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An update. I’m on v.26.2 now and now it started to happen with… Warp stabilizer! This is bad… It’s a new project I started today, it’s empty - just the cut video on the timeline.

Stop trying to edit and EDIT!

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Boka2112

Inspiring

I've had this problem at least two dozen times. My solution is to manually cut 1 to 3 frames off the transition manually. It usually happens on time remapped or nested footage. Good luck.

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Rach McIntire

Community Manager

Hi @AndrewTheGreat ,

Thanks for the detailed report and the video, which really helps, as you know.

A couple of questions:

What codec and frame rate is your footage? Are they long-GOP?
Does this happen on a fresh project or only existing ones?
Do you see the black frames when playing back at normal speed?

AndrewTheGreatAuthor

Known Participant

Hi, @Rach McIntire

The media it 100% happened with was this (this is where the Production crate transitions gave the black frame):

and this - yesterday’s project with the Push transition used:

I tried to copy and paste the media into a freshly started project and the black frame appeared there too. I should also mention that it did not happen on every clip. Here you can see this project still has transitions - all of them are Push and they worked. Once I came across one cut there the transition gave ma a black frame I had to use another transition:

All the black frames that appeared could be seen during scrubbing, playing back and in the final render.

Stop trying to edit and EDIT!

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Rach McIntire

Community Manager

hi @AndrewTheGreat ,

Thanks for MediaInfo! I see a couple of interesting things. The first clip is 5 fps, which is an unusual framerate but constant. I’ll have to test to see if that's part of it. The second clip is VFR, which might also be a contributing factor. Would you be able to send me those specific clips to test with?