Black screen in timeline

younso wrote on 10/10/2025, 4:04 PM

I am using Vegas Pro 11 and 13. I add videos to a timeline but after a while an added video will get a black screen but the audio is still there. I have tried numerous of things without a complete a solution that holds over time (Preferences/Video/GPU processing = Off, OpenCL memory Size Filter = 4000). The mp4 videos come from an iphone 13Pro and an iphone 14 and I even have mp4 videos from a GoPro Hero 5 Black.

I was thinking that if I can manage to get a few videos together that work ie no black screen then perhaps I could render those to one video, do some more like that and then add these renderings to a new timeline and finally render them all together. The final result is supposed to be a render that I can add to DVD Architect and finally burn a Blu-Ray.

As long as my thoughts are feasible what settings should I have for all of these renderings? Usually I would have the render to 1080-50i (1920x1080) 25 Mbps.

Are there any better suggestions how to solve my problem with black screens?

My setup: Win10, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 15 GB RAM

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Gid wrote on 10/10/2025, 6:41 PM

@younso Your videos from the iphone 13Pro and the iphone 14 will probably be MP4 HEVC (H.265), Vegas Pro 11 and 13 won't be compatible with HEVC. Convert your files to MP4 AVC (H.264) with a converter like Shutter Encode before adding to the timeline.

There'll be a setting in the phone to record MP4 AVC (H.264) rather than MP4 AVC (H.265) - 'Most Compatible'