I have had the same problem, and found that the only fix was what you last said, remove the beginning/end/both (random amount of frames it seems) from the timeline.

Then I would make new original captures of what I chopped out, and re-added them to the beginning/end/both.

Always worked for me - highly annoying tho.

enjoy

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