Use of Black Video to Fill Timeline Gaps???

Hello,
I have read articles in the past on using black video to fill any gaps between clips in the timeline. Is this a nessecary proceedure? I have rendered plenty of videos without doing this, and had no problems. Premeire will simply render black frames wherever there is not a clip. Does anyone have any pointers on this?
Thanks,
Clayton Nolen

It depends on your specific workflow. There can be advantages to moving clips around when there are black videos keeping everything from inadvertently sliding around and getting out of whack.
But there is no reason to have black video that in any way makes a difference to the output.

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