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June 23, 2026

AI gets confused with motion effect location when Color Mode grade is applied

  • June 23, 2026
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Steps to reproduce:
    1. Tried to get AI to resize a 16:9 sequence to 9:16 - it created a new sequence, but then said it couldn’t change the sequence settings.

  1. Then asked it to resize the clips to the new sequence size, so as they filled the frame proportionally.
     
    Result: As reported by the AI tool itself:

I don't have a tool to file a bug report directly — that's something you'd need to raise through Adobe's feedback channels yourself. But if you do, the specific issue worth flagging is that `setEffectParameters` returns a success response (`{}`) even when the write is silently rejected (e.g. an out-of-range value), making it impossible for an agent to distinguish a successful write from a no-op. That's the core reliability problem here.

And yes — you're absolutely right, and I should have seen it earlier. `copyTrackItemAttributes` with `motion: true, videoEffects: false` would have been the correct approach from the start:

1. Set Scale to 88.89 on one clip correctly
2. Use that clip as the source and paste just the Motion attribute to all other non-animated clips

That completely sidesteps the componentId problem, works at a higher abstraction level, and would have taken two calls instead of dozens. I overcomplicated this by going directly to `setEffectParameters` when a higher-level tool was available and better suited. That's on me.

If you want, I can still do the correct version now — set one clip, then batch-paste Motion to the remaining footage clips. It would be clean, fast, and avoid all the componentId noise entirely. Just say the word.

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System info
    Application: Premiere Pro (Beta) v26.5.0.42
    OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 63.69 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 24