Frame Blending introduces banding in Premiere, but works perfectly in Resolve

​@emire12146677 Sorry you’re having frustrations with this. Let’s get some more details to better troubleshoot on this issue with banding on frame blending. We’ll move this to our bug report area of the Premiere forums. I do see some of the troubleshooting you’ve done so far in Premiere.

To run tests on our side, could we request a sample file or two that is being affected? I can DM you our private upload link. 

Below will help us understand your setup better as well -

• Premiere Version: What is the exact Premiere version and build you’re using? Help > About Premiere or Premiere > About Premiere.
• Setup/OS: Please specify Windows 11/10 or Mac, plus what macOS, along with driver version/build.
  • GPU Driver version/build(Windows only): We recommend updating to the most recent version; for NVIDIA users, we strongly recommend the Studio version of the driver.
  • Mac Chip (Mac Only): what M-series chip? If Intel, please include GPU.
• Media Files: video/images and what types (can check under Media Properties)
• Project Size: About how big is your project file? Is it in a Production? Approximately how many clips are involved in a rough estimate
• Media Storage: Are your Scratch Disks set to your Documents folder or the same as project, and is this the same as the Media drive?

Also, these questions may give helpful context:

• Does it affect all projects or only some? What about new projects with a few sample clips?
• Do you recall which Premiere this was last working in, when It started, and what might have changed? Any plugins, OS update, drivers, etc.

Screen Recording: If possible, include a recording of your screen showing the issue as that can be helpful for us to see exactly what happens.

We hope to help, and sorry for the frustrations!
Katie

ALL the pro NLE and vfx apps use different math processes for their blendings. I’ve been around the colorist bunch for over a decade, and am very aware of say the discussions over blending in Resolve and Baselight. 

That you get the difference with specific media is interesting data, and I hope the staffers that follow this forum pass that on to the devs. “We” users are supposedly not supposed to ‘ping’ devs like we used to, or there’s a couple folks I would. Ah well. The staffers do tend to notify devs more than they used to be allowed to do so ...

Next, as a simply practical question, is there a reason you need to use blending rather than sampling in Premiere? As the one does work, and being a “what works, works … “ guy, I’d just do that without grumbling too much. And of course, post asking about a fix too!

But a specific note about why you need blending rather than sampling would add useful data for the devs and managers about the issue, so I would suggest adding that.

As someone who’s been working with/for/teaching pro colorists for sometime, and uses a Tangent Elements panel … I’ve got long experience in both apps. Resolve is very capable in some ways, but lags both Pr and Avid in keyboard shorts for editing … though R 21 is closer in capabilities there. For some users, R is fine for editing, and of course, for others, it’s still lacking something they use.

If it’s fine for your use, like any other tool, use it. I go nuts trying to edit in Resolve but that’s me, I hates me that UI. While a good friend loves it and thinks it’s the most easily understood intuitive UI ever designed. Right. After a decade of use I still stumble to remember where all the right click context menus are buried in Resolve. Whatever.