Exporting Black Video

[zachs9755959]

     I recently updated to Premiere Pro CC 13.0, and since then my videos have been exporting black. The titles still come through on the finished file, and the audio exports as well. The video files are just black. Everything looks fine in the project and in the export preview. I've tried exporting with Encoder and without it and same result.

I'm using h.264 with custom settings, but the exact settings I was using prior to updating. I also can't open my project file on the old version of Premiere because I've updated them to 13.0.

Any ideas?

[R Neil Haugen]

If you go to your Project Settings, and set Mercury Acceleration to 'software only' you'll probably see your media again.

If so, what that tells you is your video drivers are out of date for this version ... which is 90% the cause I'd guess ... and need to go to the manufacturer's website and manually search for the latest drivers and install them on your computer, with your GPU reactivated via that Mercury Acceleration setting of course.

Neil

Edit: you may need to go here to completely update to the latest Nvidia setup:

CUDA Toolkit 10.0 Download | NVIDIA Developer

[zachs9755959]

Thanks Neil,

I do have my Mercury Acceleration set to software only. I will download the new NVIDIA (thanks for sending the link) and let you know if it works.

Zach

[zachs9755959]

Hi Neil,

I have the new CUDA installed, as well as Mac OSX Mojave and all software possible updated, but the video is still exporting black. Again, titles show up, the logo in the corner shows up, but the video clips are black. I have Mercury playback for software only.

Any other solutions? Anyone? Missing deadlines here...

Thanks!
Zach

[Meg The Dog]

As you are on deadline . . . not a solution but a possible workaround:

Does everything render and playback correctly in the timeline?

If you change your Preview settings for you sequence to your desired export properties, can you do the preview render in Premiere? (Test this with a small section of the timeline)

If you do the above successfully, can you then export successfully with Match Sequence Settings and Use Previews checked?

(Again, test this with a small section of the timeline)

MtD

[zachs9755959]

I will try this.

Thank you!

Hopefully there is also a fix though, because exporting in h.264 with my custom settings is ideal.

[zachs9755959]

Just so everyone knows. Adobe says there is a bug with alpha channel during export. Meaning if you have a transparent video on a layer above your video clips, the transparent layer will have a black background, blocking out anything below.

That is what was happening. The solution for me now is to export my video without my animation, logo and titles that are transparent clips. Then to create a new file in the old version of premiere and import that exported video sans animations, and then add all the animations in the old version.

Timeline of bug fix is "a couple of weeks."

I don't know why they had me try a bunch of tasks before admitting there was a bug. I could have saved a lot if I went straight to the workaround instead of trying to troubleshoot something. They should have been up-front about the bug.

[eatteo]

wow my adjustment layer for color grading apparently had a bug and only made everything black during export. now i know. Thanks for sharing this. For others, try truning off all layers above your footage. 

[winster]

Neil, 

Thank you so much for this. IT WORKED! 

What is actually a video driver though? 

[M Venkata5EA5]

Hey listen whenever i export after effects project with media encoder its just plain black video help pls...

[mysticacreations · Accepted solution]

I NESTED THOSE CLIPS WHICH WERE APPEARING BLACK AND IT SEEMED TO PERFECTLY DO THE JOB FIR ME!

[mollyg91713169]

This also worked for me!

[WatchWilson33]

I Nested the whole project, but the Exported file is still just a black screen!  I'm using Version 13.1.5 and the Mercury Application is set to Software Only also.  Any other fixes???

[Chexd]

HAving the exact same issue!

But ONE part of the video does display after export. V2 channel which was imported from a different camera and settings.

Again...everything looks fine in Preview!

[R Neil Haugen]

So what is the difference between the image files? Format/codec?

Does this also happen if you go to the Project setttings dialog and set Mercury Acceleration to software only?

Neil

[Radu16B8]

This worked for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWeMPt3SQc 

[SusanneEN]

2 years later, issue is back. Exported a video now with custom settings earlier today, exported fine. But now, completely black. Had to match settings as well to get an image.

[Kitty5FD6]

Argh me too!! Why does this happen!!

[R Neil Haugen]

Which specific version of Premiere are you using, down through all the dot and extra number build data?

Are you exporting directly from Premiere, or queueing to MediaEncoder?

And which formats/codecs?

Neil

[Austin5F99]

Has this been resolved?  I am having the same issue with a section of video that I had to convert to a format that premiere supported and when I export that section is black video.  the audio and graphics (words) showup but not the video?? I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 version 14.7.0 build 23.

[R Neil Haugen]

I would recommend doing a Render & Replace with that clip on the sequence then. Use something like the ProRes 422 codec. Then try exporting.

Neil

[Harsha Vardhan0101]

hi,

This worked for me:

Go to "Sequence" menu - "Sequence Settings". Select Editing mode as "HDV 1080p". Timebase: 23.976 frames. OK. Confirm to regenerate the previews.

That absolutely worked for me. 🙂

[Aoun5F86]

I figured out that the clips that are rendered black were the cuts of the same nested clip. When I opened the nested clip, the eye of the track was off. I don't know why It was showing all clips preview in the main sequence even when the preview of the track was off in the nested sequence. The solution was not just turning track preview ON. To fix this problem, go through this process:
1- Save the project, close and reopen it.
2- Now it will not show the preview of clips that are part of the nested sequence.
3- Turn on the preview inside the nested sequence. But the main sequence will still not show the preview of clips that are part of the nested sequence.
4- Select all clips of the nested sequence's required track and move them to the upper track. Now remove them to the bottom track again. 
5- Go to the main sequence, it will now show previews & render the same (WYSIWYG).

[default832z5770xexs]

I have been trying to export my video several different times now trying every single fix in this thread as well as updating my media encoder and still no luck. My first minute of video shows up (the part with the most technical editing) but the rest displays a black screen (the parts with the least complex editing). I can still hear all of my audio but I cant see the rest of my video. 

[Harsha Vardhan0101]

hi,
Try this fix:
- delete all files and folders in "C:\Users\Username\Documents\Adobe"
- Re-open Premiere Pro
- Try to render again

--
Thanks
Harsha.