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. 

[Callie5FDD]

I have the same issue; I can split a clip, apply WS to the first part of the clip, and a black frame appears right at the split. This is combined with export failures. 

[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.

[ENNUI]

Thank you for replying!
Yeah well, back in the days people had to cut in film, so I take this for granted. 🙂

Regards,

Seppe

[Ronny31410433mglt]

The only fix I've found through troubleshooting this problem on my own is, I nest the video clip in the sequence and then I clip off the black frame at the end. Not ideal but this issue is about as frustrating as it gets.  

[TravisBW]

I would also like a response with more details on this. The update a few days ago has made this happen to most clips I apply Warp Stabilizer to.

[Moritz5FE2]

Different username but its still me, the author.
So I'm not 100% certain, but it was basically extending the clip by one frame and shortening it, to get the stabilizer to re analyze the scene. Maybe it could have just worked by removing the stabilizer and aplying it again witht the same settings, but I'm really not shure. Was nothing majorly complicated. Maybe just cutting off the broken frame and go from there..

[TravisBW]

Thanks @Moritz5FE2 , that's exactly what we ended up doing. I did spend some time trying changing all of the options in Warp Stabilizer but wasn't able to get rid of the black frame. So just extended it, then trimmed it, and successfully rendered.

Not ideal, but better than not being able to render or use the effect at all. I hope they look into this.

[sjb0788]

This just started happening to me as well. I can manually fix it by just re-dragging the clip over to the timeline but this is a pain in the a$$.

[Karansidhuphotography]

I had the same issue and i think it is due to the sequence setting of one clip when merged with another seq. which had a different fps. 

[johanesimmanuel]

Nest the clip and stabilize it again, it works for me...

[ilucris]

Premiere Pro is always updating and chances are you will start a project in one version and finishing in another. You might come back at a project later to make another version of the edit. So it sucks that this brakes. 

The SOLUTION for me was rendering the sequence (as I could not render and replace the clip) and replacing the content of the problematic sequence with the rendered version of it.

[najavens@gmail.com]

SOLVED!!

I have had the same issue.  I belive it is caused when importing a sequence into a new sequence of differing FPS.  The dropped frames appear at the end of certain clips and are caused by the warp stabiliser.

There are two solutions:

1.  Nest the affected clip and re-apply Warp Stabiliser (Already mentioned above)

2.  Easiest and best solution, apply an Adjustment Layer over the entire sequence and add an effect such as Camera Blur.  Set effect to 0 so it does not show.  All dropped frames should dissapear.

[anothertruth]

I love you without knowing you brother, in 2025, thanks for the solution!

[bauo_9502]

2024 This is still happening. How on earth?

[anothertruth]

It's happening again now with version 2025. As you mentioned, it's a Premiere 2024 file that continued to be worked on in the new version. I lost like 5 hours of rendering thanks to a couple of errors before finding this post, which is really annoying.

[carstenb31599197]

I can’t believe that such expensive software fails to program a decent video stabilizer. I’m really losing my mind here. I’ve tried all the tips, from switching from PAL to NTSC, to 30FPS, etc., but whenever I stabilize and add a transition from one clip to another, I still get a black screen at the end of the transition. Okay, using nesting worked, but that’s not a real solution—how is one supposed to work properly like this? I understand why more people are moving to DaVinci Resolve—I’m seriously considering it too. It’s just frustrating because of all the plugins and filters I’ve bought over the years. I’ll go back to searching and hope to find a tip that actually works.