Ever see a stray frame/image copied into a transition??

[Guest]

I am editing an hour-long video with about 100 clips. I think I am
encountering an error in WMM, but not sure.

When I split a long clip into two clips, and then delete one of the clips,
sometimes a single image/frame from the deleted clip appears in the
"transition" for the next clip. It is only a single frame/image, but it
ruins the video because it is out-of-context. My video appears choppy, with
a single image spliced between two clips.

My question is "where is this single image stored?" It seems to be stored
in the "transition" between clips. As I scroll through the video frame by
frame, the stray image appears "between" two clips. If I view the storyboard
screen and click on the transition box, I can see the stray image/frame. I
wish I could delete it. I am not using any transitions in this video. The
menus do not allow me to delete the transition because WMM thinks I have not
specified any transitions.

Has anyone seen this?

Thanks!!

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

yes, see the Problem Solving > Video Issues page of www.papajohn.org

My newsletter #55 explores it in more depth (there's a link to it on that
page)... but the basic thing is that MM2 shows you every other frame of a
source file, not every frame...

You need to use MM1 or VirtualDub to see and work at the frame level.

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[Guest]

Thank you very much. Right on. I think my problem is somewhere between
Quirk #7 and #11. Thank you for sharing what you have learned.

Jay