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rlr29711
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Nov 23, 2021 8:04 PM UTC
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Bug: Optical Flow and M1 Max

Hi,


I am having a consistent bug in which optical flow on clips renders improperly on my M1 Max Macbook Pro. This occurs on both .mp4 and ProRes clips during timeline renders and exports. This bug appears to have been around for some time. Unless fixed, I cannot use my M1 machine on commercial projects.

 

M1 Max, 64GB memory

 

Version 22.0.0 (Build 169)

 

Thanks!

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    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Legend
    Mar 11, 2024 4:40 PM UTC

    Hello @rlr29711 and community,

    A product manager has marked this bug as fixed in Premiere Pro 22.3. Please update to 22.3 or later to be free of this issue.

     

    Thanks to @rlr29711 and the others on this thread for providing the info needed to reproduce the issue for the product team, which has led to a fix.

     

    Cheers,
    Kevin

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    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
    Fergus H
    Community Manager
    Fergus HCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    Mar 16, 2022 5:41 PM UTC

    Hello, 

    This issue should be fixed in the latest beta of Premiere Pro and will be included in the next release version of Premiere Pro. Information about how to use Creative Cloud beta applications is here: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/creative-cloud-beta.html. The summary of that article is that:

    1. Beta apps are available from the "Beta Apps" section of the Creative Cloud Desktop app. 

    2. Beta apps are designed to be installed alongside release apps - it's completely safe to have both installed. However...

    3. Beta apps are unfinished and should not be relied upon for critical work.  

    Regards,

    Fergus

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      scottwild
      Known Participant
      Mar 16, 2022 5:48 PM UTC

      where can I download the beta version and test?

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      Jeff Bugbee
      Community Expert
      Jeff BugbeeCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      Mar 16, 2022 6:03 PM UTC

      https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/creative-cloud-beta.html

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      Fergus H
      Community Manager
      Fergus HCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      Feb 25, 2022 1:47 AM UTC

      Hi all, 

      I'm one of Premiere Pro's product managers and this issue definitely has our attention. It's a bug we can reproduce and it is one we have logged. I do not yet have an ETA for when it will be fixed but when I do, I will share it with you. 

      My apologies that this issue has gone unaddressed for so long. 

      Regards,

      Fergus

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      scottwild
      Known Participant
      Mar 16, 2022 5:33 PM UTC

      Was this fixed? I'm getting weird artifacts in my exports as well.

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      stevenprobets
      Known Participant
      Mar 16, 2022 5:38 PM UTC

      Not yet! Mine is still doing it. You have to use Intel Prmeire and export directly from Premeire. If I use Media Encoder to queue it will still have curropt video. Despite using Intel Premiere 😞

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      bushi
      Participant
      Jan 26, 2022 12:32 PM UTC

      I have experince doing software encoding only or 2nd pass encoding ; it doesn't work. It turns out all my atempts exporting with media encoder didn't work.

      The only real solution for me was to boot Premier using Rosetta, but it turns out that even using rosetta I had other weird gltich (some of my 4k footages (R5 422 CLOG)  used to pixelate SO THEN I descided to do a clean instal of my mac OS and réinstal Abobe cloud software without using my Timemachine back up from my previews i9 macbook pro 2020 = seems to fix all my issue with Optical Flow in rosetta mode so far ! and mith NeatVideo denoiser pluging as well.

      It turns out that using my timemachine of an intel Mac on a sillicon Mac isn't a good way to start using a Mac M1

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      Jeff Bugbee
      Community Expert
      Jeff BugbeeCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      Jan 24, 2022 8:06 PM UTC

      Has everyone tried switching from Hardware to Software encoding? Not saying this as a permanent fix, just to see if either mode provides a different experience or if they result in the same corruption.

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      g2griff
      Participant
      Jan 24, 2022 8:01 PM UTC

      Same issue here on a Mac Mini M1. I have to send projects to my iMac Pro for a final export.

       

      Version 22.0

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      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Legend
      Jan 24, 2022 7:48 PM UTC

      rlr and community,

      Sorry about this issue. We need to get the product team's attention to this issue. Therefore, to increase my ability to advocate for a fix on your behalf, could you help me by upvoting this bug? Do so by clicking the upvote counter in the upper-left of this post.

       

      My colleague Summet has already filed on this issue internally.

       

      Much Appreciated,
      Kevin

       

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      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
        rlr29711Author
        Known Participant
        Jan 25, 2022 11:09 PM UTC

        Thank you for calling attention to this bug, speed effects are a core tool in an editors arsenal. 

         

        This bug also appears when I batch render to Media Encoder, even if I'm running in Rosetta, meaning I cannot batch export. Another frustrating problem, as I often have numerous delivarables, cutdowns and spec requirements for distribution channels, slowing down my workflow quite a bit and impacting my ability to hit deadlines in a timely manner.

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          bushi
          Participant
          Jan 11, 2022 6:19 PM UTC

          Same problem for me with the lasted Macbookpro M1 max.

          I'm experiencing glitches on my exports on almost each clip I used optical flow.

          A real bumer 😞 

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            EditorPete
            EditorPete
            Known Participant
            Jan 11, 2022 7:32 PM UTC

            Hi,

            Don't have an M1 but have had issues with Optical flow before.

            A work around for me was to nest the clip(s) I was using Optical flow on. Using Optical flow inside of the nest not on the nest.

            A shot in the dark, but doesn't hurt to try?

             

            PO

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            rlr29711Author
            Known Participant
            Jan 24, 2022 7:28 PM UTC

            No I am a professional editor and understand the limitations of Optical Flow and its implementation, and how to get it to work properly. This is a rendering error with M1 Macs and Premiere.

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              stevenprobets
              Known Participant
              Dec 31, 2021 4:48 PM UTC

              Same here! Creates really jerky curropt video.

               

              Premeire 22.1.2

              Apple M1 Max 

              64 GB

               

              It completely cancels out me using Premeire M chip version! 

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                daniels15061561
                daniels15061561
                Participant
                Dec 13, 2021 2:29 PM UTC

                I am having tihs exact same problem and its driving me nuts. Adobe neet to sort this problem out ASAP> There is a workaround I believe and thtas to export it VBR 2 pass. Seems to work okay for me. Not ideal as its adds time but come on Adobe!

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