Why am I getting black footage during & after rendering, after the end of video in CS5?
computerskillme Dec 9, 2011 8:54 AMThis just started and is completely odd. When I go to render my clips, I export them to the Adobe Media Encoder, and then when all of them are there, I click on 'start queue.' The videos take all day to render, (I tried rendering four clips to Windows Media Player format, and each clip is about 30 minutes in length), and there is an additional hour of black footage after the end of the video.
I looked at my project, hitting the 'home' and 'end' keys to make sure that the end of the video ends where it is supposed to end. I made sure that all the eyes are showing in the project too. In the 'export' area, I make sure that the work area has the same timeline as my project.
Still a ton of black footage is created. So I did a test with 50 seconds of footage. And it claims to take an hour to render, and as I'm looking over, it's now rendering black footage. What is going on?
Here is the settings that I'm doing for the video clips, as I run a VOD (video on demand) website. (So if you see something I could be doing better with the settings, please let me know, thanks!).
Output: 720x480, Upper
96 kbps, 48 kHz, stereo VBR
Compressed, VBR, 2 Pass, Audiences: 1, Avg 1500.00 kbps
Source: Sequence, TITLE
1440x1080 (1.333), 29.97 fps, Upper, 00;00;50;13
48000 Hz, Stereo
Audience: High Bandwidth
Filters Tab - nothing checked
Audiences Tab - Output: Compressed, Average Kbps: Variable
Video Tab -
Codec: Windows Media Video 9
Allow interlaced processing (checked)
Encoding Passes: Two (checked)
Bitrate Mode: Variable Unconstrained
Frame Width: 720 x 480 (locked)
Frame Rate: 29.97
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121)
Advanced Settings - Decocder Complexity: Auto and Keyframe Interval 5 seconds
Use Maximum Render Quality (checked)
Audio Tab -
Bitrate Settings - Encoding Passes: Two (checked)
Bitrate Mode: Variable Unconstrained
Basic Audio Settings - Codec: Windows Media Audio 9.2 and Audio Format: 96 kbps, 48 kHz, stereo VBR
For the project, there is only one sequence. Video Display Format is Timecode. Capture Format: HDV. Video Rendering and Playback Renderer: Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration. 3 video tracks, 3 audio tracks.
Sequence Preset: HDV 1080i30 (60i)
For the raw video itself, it is 1920x1080, Frame Rate: 29 frames/second, Data Rate: 21686 kbps, Total Bitrate: 21942 kbps
For my computer:
Local Disk C: 22.2 GB free of 111 GB
Local Disk G: (which all my videos are on and get rendered on) 1.9 TB free of 6.36 TB
Processor: Intel(R) Core (TM) i7 CPU 950 X 3.07 3.07 GHz
Running Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1
Installled Memory (RAM): 24.0 GB
64-bit Operating System
I hope that this is everything that's needed. If I'm missing something, please let me know. I've been making vods for years. I've never had this happen before.


