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DearTheiery
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March 26, 2025
Question

Black Screen & Audio Dropouts in Exports

  • March 26, 2025
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Hi folks,

I've been struggling with this issue for about a year, and I’m out of ideas. After 20 years of exporting videos from Premiere, I’ve never encountered something this persistent.

No matter how I export (via Media Encoder, straight from Premiere, different drives, using lower bitrates) my exported videos consistently contain chunks of black screen + no audio gaps. These chunks are usiually 5 seconds and sometimes there's only one of them, other times there are multiple gaps.

I’m on Premiere Pro v25.1.0 (build 73), as a CC subscriber; I'm running on an M2 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM. I know 8GB is an obvious issue but for two solid years, this exact machine exported flawlessly. That’s why I’m hesitant to believe RAM is the only cause. I'm hoping there's something I can do despite that limitation.

Would really appreciate any insight, especially if you’ve seen or solved something similar.
Thanks in advance.
Thierry

1 reply

Community Manager
March 26, 2025

Hi Thierry,

 

We're sorry about the poor experience. Is this happening while exporting in any specific format or with all of them? Also, have you used any plugins/effects on the sections where you see a black preview? We're here to help, just need more info.

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

DearTheiery
Known Participant
March 26, 2025

Hi Sumeet, 
Thanks for your reply! 
I am exporting from MOV to H264. Sometimes in 4 and sometimes in 1080p. Same outcome. I have no plugins installed. In the places where there is black in the final export there is nothing in the sequence that indicates a chage - they seem to appear at random. 
My instinct is that my system runs out of temp space during the export, but I have 500GB of free space on the drive it's writing to and 80GB on the main HD where PS lives. Do you think it is the low RAM? 

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! 
Thierry

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2025
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 and 80GB on the main HD where PS lives.


By @DearTheiery

 

That could be an issue if there isn't enough free space for temp and system files.

What size is the drive?

Are both drives SSDs?