Warp Stabilizer causes black frame at the end of a clip.

[Trenzit]

Since upgrading to the 2020 Version of PP I'm regularly getting black frames at the ends of clips which didn't happen before.

Happens on multiple machines, on my windows and mac systems. So far mostly happens to canon 700d footage.

I can cut off the last frame and everything works again, but thats just very time consuming to get back to every clip after it is stabilized to check for the ending and if left in the render will fail. 

[Byron Cortez]

Give us detailed video specs please.

[Trenzit]

1920 x 1080p, 29,97 frames - in a matching timeline

Shot on Canon 700D

File Format & Compression: MP4/MOV H.264 4:2:0

The stabilizer Settings seem not to make a difference, only when set to systhesize borders I get an image but thats not an option for my workflow.

Thanks for your help.

[Byron Cortez]

Seriously it seems quite strange what is happening with your clip because it seems that everything is normal in its configuration for a Stabilized, you are sure that the sequence has the same specs as the clip, right?  I have heard some issues related to clips recorded with this camera. I will try to find a solution and as soon as I have it I write to you, meanwhile we hope that some ACP partner can help us a little.

[Trenzit]

I've been working with this footage and this camera for a couple of years and the stabilisation alsways worked perfectly, only with this new update I started getting the Issues. I first thought there might be something bad with the current project file, but it carried on to all the projects. Otherwise I might have to check if I can work with the older version, but getting the Problem fixed would be a lot better.

[Seppe27677597o2c0]

I've got the same problem. Shooting with a Canon C300MKII. Is this problem already been solved?

Regards,

Seppe

[Ann Bens]

FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences.

[Trenzit]

No, that didn't help. Plus I now have to re-enter in my preferences.

[Ann Bens]

If it did work you still had to restore your preferences.......

You can store your preference in the cloud.

Upload a short clip for testing.

[Trenzit]

I'm sorry, but it's really hard for me to recreate that problem. The main file I'm having this issue with is a 4gb file of a customer interview, wich for legal reasons I can't share and I've tried other files where I thought I had the problem, but in my testing they worked.
Whenever I put the same file in the same timeline and take a short bit out of it, it works. But the Clips I've put in the timeline earlier and cut them down to the important parts somehow seem ruined. I don't know how they got cursed, but even when there is no other effect on them and no matter how short the clip is, the stabilizer does not work at the last frame.

It's just very annoying for me, because I'm editing a couple of long interviews and whenever I'm ready to cut between the cameras, the footage seems to be ruined. At that point it's just an absolute pain to check for the faulty clips, because it's a single frame between thousands and the render error does not really help in finding that frame.

[Guest]

Please share media for us to test

[Trenzit]

I'm sorry, but it's really hard for me to recreate that problem. The main file I'm having this issue with is a 4gb file of a customer interview, wich for legal reasons I can't share and I've tried other files where I thought I had the problem, but in my testing they worked.
Whenever I put the same file in the same timeline and take a short bit out of it, it works. But the Clips I've put in the timeline earlier and cut them down to the important parts somehow seem ruined. I don't know how they got cursed, but even when there is no other effect on them and no matter how short the clip is, the stabilizer does not work at the last frame.

It's just very annoying for me, because I'm editing a couple of long interviews and whenever I'm ready to cut between the cameras, the footage seems to be ruined. At that point it's just an absolute pain to check for the faulty clips, because it's a single frame between thousands and the render error does not really help in finding that frame.

[Guest]

Ehh just use FFMPEG to transcode it to DNxHD at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/84encj/using_ffmpeg_to_convert_files_to_dnxhd_mxf/dvpa25w/

[Trenzit]

The FFMPEG solution doesn't sound reasonable to me. I guess the problem mostly occurred on files i've created before the update and everything since then semms to work. When I doubleclicked a faulty clip and dragd it back in from the source window, the file was fine but just a frame shorter. So It has to be some sort of timeline bug, where the same clip has different legths somewhere.
The problem for me was in the timeline and not in the files themselves.

[amorvan]

I am also having the same problems, I was on version 13.1 and had the same issue and have just updated to version 14.0 and the problem continues. I am using a Sony A7iii and have matched sequence setting to footage too. I hope there is a software fix as I cannot afford time to cut of frames with every clip and transitions also cause a problem where I have to know fade one video track out on the track above as cross dissolving creates a black clip even after trimming the video back one frame!

[Ann Bens]

Guessing this is a specific A7iii issue.

[robertb98551210]

I had the same issue and could not export my video. I nested my clip then added warp stabilizer and it got rid of the black frame.

[Christopher5E2C]

Also happening to me. At first I didn't realize it was warp stablizer that was dropping my frames, as I've been editing a feature. (Couln't pin-point the problem.)  Every cut I would export would have an error. So I started setting my in and out points in small sections, render the selections, until it would give me the error. This showed me about where my issue was. Finally, I found the missing frame. To my surprise, warp stabilzer was on the clip(s) has have causing the poblem. It's now Novemeber 2020. Still not resolved.

[premiumleo]

It's now Aug 2024, still not resolved. Clip im using is 48 fps though on a 60fps project. Maybe there are issues in the transcoding.

[premiumleo]

On a positive note, nesting, and then applying warp on top, fixes the issue it seems. Good catch. August 2024....

[the_dudes]

This is not resolved. And here's another thread, with some Adobe team involvement: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/warp-stabilizer-causes-black-frame-at-end-of-cut/m-p/116...

[the_dudes]

And here's the uservoice thread from 2018: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/35517763-warp-stabilizer-ca...

[Trenzit · Accepted solution]

I think I'll just follow this topic up, since it has been solved for me without doing anything. Contrary to many solutions mentioned here, it has nothing to do with the camera, codec or any other file format.
For me this Problem only ocurred in Project files that where converted from one Premiere version to the newer version. All clips in those timelines seemingly where bugged, so that the warp stabilizer red them differently. Resizing each individual clip fixed this for me.

Every timeline created in any later version did not have this problem and even converting to even newer versions did not cause this problem for me anymore.

[stevrev]

Hello, can you clarify when you mean exactly by "resizing each individual clip"? Do you mean with the motion effects? Or footage interpretation?

[Moritz5FE2]

Yes, so it's the most dumb version of fixing it. I've just shortened every clip by one frame and extended it back to it's intended length. Afterwards as usual the warp stabilizer needs to re-analyze, so it's a pretty manual process, but that was the fastest fix for my usecase so far.