Submitted Question:
At the end of my recorded show I add a "go to black" tray if there isn't one already there. Sometimes I have a bit of extra recorded audio/video that I do not want in the final product. For some reason this sound/video comes after the go to black tray. Is there some way to eliminate this, so when it fades to black it's done, with no extra blank footage after?
Ahh yes, I know exactly what you mean. In my case, I've decided all student projects we'd simply eliminate the go to black tray that gets inserted automatically by the wizard. This means there isn't any fade to black at all, the last frame of our videos is the actual closing slate graphic.
A word on why this is...
You can specify how long Visual Communicator by default treats the pause time for any graphic tray, when there are no other trays below it. Default is 5 seconds, but you can change that (under settings dropdown, then application settings). Since the last go to black tray appears to be a graphic, VC thinks to treat it like any other graphic in your show, and use the default pause time if there is none specified on that specific tray, OR if there is nothing below this tray.
You can of course change this default, or you can set the pause time manually on this last go to black tray. My workaround is to delete that last tray entirely, thus our videos end on the last frame, once the music stops. That means the length of the closing music determines how long the last tray stays onscreen. Make sense? Let us know in the comments area below!
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