Help! Black frames at end of video

alicia wrote on 10/16/2005, 2:48 AM
Hello

This is driving me crazy! I have a video mpeg2 rendered in Vegas, i drop the video in Architect 2 with the sound in AC3, everything looks fine on my screen, when I watch the DVD at the end I have 3 seconds of completely black screen before it goes back to the menu.

I read some posts on this forum so I shortened the AC3= no difference. I converted the AC3 in WAV = no difference. Basically no matter what I do, I always end up with those 3 seconds of black screen at the end!

In Architect 2 I can see black frames added at the end of my video but i have no clue where they come from (there is no such thing in my Vegas file), I tried to set up the end of the video way before those black frames and it makes no difference at all!

What can I do? I'am working on this problem for 1 week without any result!

Help!

Pat

Comments

jrazz wrote on 10/16/2005, 6:08 AM
Instead of shortening your audio, try lengthening the last fram of your video file by 3 seconds.
alicia wrote on 10/16/2005, 6:36 AM
what difference would it make? Obviously black frames are added by Architect no matter the lenght of video, if i add frames in Vegas, why would this stop Architect from adding black frames?

johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2005, 8:49 AM
1. When you preview in DVDA, do you see the black frames at the end?

2. Go to the timeline in DVDA for the video that is having the problem. Go to the end of the timeline and zoom in so the whole timeline represents about one second of video. Where is the out point (the yellow triangle)? Are the audio and video ending at the same point in time?

I have had videos where, for various reasons, the out point got set beyond the end of the video. This would certainly cause the DVD to play for extra seconds, and it would definitely be black during that time.
alicia wrote on 10/16/2005, 9:23 AM
1) Yes, in DVDA I see the black frames at the end

2) I tried just about everything:
a) audio (ac3) and video (mpeg2) were same lenght ending at the same point of time and out point was before the first black frame
b) i shortened the audio and out point was before the first black frame
c) i converted ac3 to mp3 and moved the out point a little bit before the last frame (way before black frames)
d) I converted the audio to wav and kept moving out point as much I could and as far as possible from the black frames

None of the above made ANY difference, i always end up with black frames before the video goes back to the menu.

I really have no clue where those black frames come from as I do not have black frames at the end of the video in Vegas, I have made hundreds of DVD and it's the first time ever I see this problem, now, after having try everything i am left with my dvd AND black frames. Notice that when I play the dvd on my computer i do not have black frames and when I watch the preview in DVDA i do not have black frames either, they show up when I play the DVD with my dvd player.

I tried to render on different (completely new) DVD but I always have the same problem.
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jrazz wrote on 10/16/2005, 1:31 PM
I don't know what difference it makes extending the video out past the audio, but I do know that it has fixed this problem for me... that is why I recomended you try it.
jimmyz wrote on 10/16/2005, 9:29 PM
on one of mine I clicked save media markers or some such thing
and it grabbed a marker I had inserted but that was after the video.
Black frames at end....
rsp wrote on 10/17/2005, 6:21 AM
" I have made hundreds of DVD and it's the first time ever I see this problem"

If you made 100's of DVD's with DVDA and this is the first and only one with that 'black frame' problem it seems most likely that there's something different with this video/audio.
As you already tried to shorten/lenghten the audio and video i would suggest to start another compilation or add different video and see what happens

Rudi

Edit: or perhaps render with another template from Vegas?
johnmeyer wrote on 10/17/2005, 12:20 PM
on one of mine I clicked save media markers or some such thing

Yeah, that's what happened to me as well and was what I was trying to get at. You have to look very carefully at the timeline view of your video and audio tracks and see if there are markers beyond the end of the timeline. In my case it happened because I imported markers from Vegas, and I had "left-over" markers beyond the end of the video from various things that had been cut from the project.