Video continues to play black screen after actual content ends

Report · Jul 20, 2023

Hello Community

After my actual video content ends, the preview continues to play a black screen for ~10 minutes. There are grey bars in the panel, I cannot select anything to the right of the end of the acutal content in order to try to delete it. Please see screen shot.

Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thank you for your help!

Report · Jul 20, 2023

That gray area is the Work Area. You hit the "I" key to set an In point after your last clip. To get rid of this you can clear the Work Area by going to the Marker Menu > "Clear In and Out" ("Ctrl+Shift+X"). Alternatively, if you did want to use the Work Area for previewing, rendering, or anything else, you can set new In/Out points using keyboard shortcuts "I" and "O."

Report · Jul 20, 2023

Thank you for your response and patience as I learn about this. I used Clear In and Out and the grey bars are now gone. However, the video still plays back a black screen and I also noted (and suspect this was happening before I cleared in and out) that the timeline continues to advance.

A attached a new screen shot for reference.

Report · Jul 20, 2023

No problem, happy to help. Do you have a clip at the end of your timeline, even if it's only a single frame? If you hit the "End" key on your keyboard from anywhere in your timeline it will jump to the end of the last clip. Does doing this move the playhead past the last clip in your screenshot?

Report · Jul 20, 2023

I hit End and the playhead advanced as shown in the lastest screen shot. It doens't look like there's another clip after the end of the content (I have a .JPG that dips to black to end the video - 36:21:04)

Report · Jul 20, 2023

Hmm, ok, well let's at least confirm for sure that your clip is the last one in the timeline. Back up one frame to the last frame of the clip. Do you see a purple vertical bar like in my screenshot? If not, click the Wrench menu in the Program monitor (arrow is pointing at it in the screenshot) and choose the second to bottom option called "Overlays." If it's already on and you don't see the bar, go one more option below to "Overlay Settings > Settings" and make sure the checkbox called "End of media/sequence indicators" (as shown in the third screenshot) is checked. If Overlays are enabled and this box is checked, then the very last frame of your timeline (not the one after) will show this purple bar.

Report · Jul 21, 2023

I check the setting and End of media/sequence indicators is checked. There is no purple bar - see screen shot

Report · Jul 21, 2023

The last frame is going to be your black video, the pink clip. It doesn't matter what kind of asset is at the end, whether it's a video, image, black video, or text, but you need to be on the actual last frame of your content.

Report · Jul 21, 2023

Thank you for clarifying. I moved the playhead to the very end, and made sure that the End of media/sequence indicators was checked. No purple bars are visible, as in the screen shot.

Report · Jul 21, 2023

Ok, good to know. This, along with the continuous playback seems to imply that there is another frame somewhere in the timeline after your last graphic. I'd just copy everything from the beginning to that end graphic into a new timeline and I suspect you'll be all set.

Report · Jul 21, 2023

@Linda311965753903,

@David Arbor's last post should get you set. But I'll add a bit.

In your last screenshot (issue 5.jpg), the full sequence time shows in the right side of the Program Monitor to be 37:09:10 and your "end of sequence" CTI position is 36:17:02. So you are still not at the end. All your tracks appear to be showing (from this and the other screenshots), and the full sequence time is visible in the timeline that is showing. But there is nothing showing. And you say it is playing 10 minutes past the end. Odd.

My favorite method for looking for an asset late in the timeline is just to make sure the focus is in the timeline panel, and hit the End key. If you do that, does the CTI go later?

The purple end of sequence bars show in the Program monitor, not the timeline. But for me they show only for the end of video, not if the audio continues longer.

If none of this works, try resetting your workspace. If it is a custom workspace, try a standard one such as Editing.

Stan