How I got around the issue of Premiere Pro 2023 adding several minutes of blank screen to the end of my video edit when there is no extra, floating footage at the end. I'm on a Mac, so at the end I simply press the downward arrow key (or Control + Downward Arrow key) several times and it's not moving from the intended end of my video. Great! Except... when I send it to Media Encoder, the result is an extra 6 minutes of blank screen! Why? I don't know. But I've found a workaround.

The only other tip I can suggest before you try my fix, is to shut down Premiere Pro and relaunch in case the system is caching the extra footage at the end because you opened Media Encoder before exporting directly from Premiere Pro. I was having this issue with the video I edited for my fix, shut down Premiere, then relaunched and exported it through Premiere and no extra blank screen!

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