Why the last frame turn black?

[Valerie36573341hqks]

Hi, I'm creating an outro of exactly 5 seconds, 30 fps

the last frame always turns black, how can I fix this?

when I trim that last black frame, the one next to it turns black, and so on @@ 

I don't want the viewers to see a black screen at the end.

[Peru Bob]

Your screenshot shows your playhead at the end of the timeline. The black you see is the next frame, not the last frame of your timeline.

Zoom in to your timeline and you will see that.

See this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/timeline-playhead-offset/m-p/11389828

If you want to have the outro to end with the last frame showing, you will have to either do a frame hold or duplicate the last frame for the desired duration.

[Valerie36573341hqks]

ok, so why when I export, the end of the video show black?

[Peru Bob]

The video just plays until it ends, and then no more video is displayed (a black screen).

Because Premiere Pro can't tell your media player to freeze on the last frame, you see black.

You have to set up the media player to do that.

Or if you are authoring DVDs or Blu-ray, the authoring software can have it pause on the last frame.

[Valerie36573341hqks]

ok, I can understand that shows black on the timeline, but my clip ends at 5 seconds, which has graphics, why does it show black at the end when I export the video? it's supposed to show the last frame with graphics on my timeline, right? am I missing something?

[Ann Bens]

Your first frame is 0.00, your last frame is 04.29, a total of 150 frames which is 5 seconds With a framerate of 30 fps.

05.00 in the timeline is the first frame of whatever comes next: in this case nothing and shows as black. Which in reality is a void.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

This is a puzzler for many new ... and even not so new! ... folks in editing.

The CTI ... the current time indicator or "playhead" ... is never in-between frames, it is always attached to a frame.

So if the CTI is past the last frame of the last clip, it is actually showing what's 'there', which is a blank ... therefore black ... image.

To have the last one be of your image, you need to have the CTI on the last frame ... not after it.

And to export without a black frame, the CTI needs to be on the last frame also. Not after it.

By the way, there is a keyboard shortcut to go to the last frame. Different from the command to go to the end. It's really necessary to learn when to use last frame, and when to use go to end.

[RobShultz]

If you'd like the frame to remain for a while you may want to use the camera icon to make a still of the frame. Import it into your timeline and extend it to your desired length.

[Valerie36573341hqks]

Hi, what is the shortcut to get to the last frame of the clip?

when I press the Arrow down button, it jumps to the NEXT one after the last frame of my clip, which is blank

[nguyenkt08]

ah, it's Shift + O, thank you so much.

[R Neil Haugen]

I would recommend getting familiar with the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. Easily found in the main menu and of course there are keyboard shorts to open that panel also.

There are MANY things that have key-shorts but are not assigned "as shipped". And you can change how already assigned things are invoked. Save one or more presets of keyboard shortcuts.

And it's searchable, by panel of Premiere, or by say typing in a modifier or pair of modifiers ... hit Shift, and the display shows the shorts that are currently set to use the Shift key. Same for any other modifier or combination.

And there's a search bar also. So typing "last" in the search bar brings up anything where the devs have "last" in the keyshort description. And you can look down, and find "go to last frame" ... among other things.

"go to " and "nudge" and several other things can bring up many options.