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June 18, 2026

Stroke effect resizes image upon export

  • June 18, 2026
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I applied the “Stroke” effect to some still images to add a white border. Then I added scale keyframes to make the image move. Looks great in the timeline, but when I export, the still images (and sometimes the images beneath them) are a drastically different scale, so they get knocked outside the frame.

From reading similar bug reports, it’s possible this has something to do with GPU acceleration? Unfortunately I’m on a Mac Studio M1 Max, so it doesn’t look like I can disable GPU acceleration. 

 

Edit: Gaussian Blur effect is causing the same problem. Workaround is to reset all Motion effects (Position, Scale) and recreate those effects using the Transform effect instead. This fixed the problem.

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    KatieToo
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    June 18, 2026

    Hi ​@kevina41766135 

    Welcome to the Premiere forums! We’re glad you’re here. I see you’re using an M1 Max, could we also get a few more details with Important Details for an Adobe Bug Report? I’m glad that you discovered a workaround by using the Transform effect to fix it. I believe for that Mac if it’s like this one, attaching screenshot, it’ll be grayed out and can’t be changed that way.
     

    under Project Settings > General



    Appreciate your post,
    Katie

    Inspiring
    June 18, 2026

    Premiere Version 26.3.0 (Build 93)

     

    Mac Studio 2022

    Apple M1 Max

    32 GB

    macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 19, 2026

    @kevina41766135,

     

    I assume that with the Transform effect, it looks the same on the timeline and in export. But without the transform effect it looks correct and then exports wrong.

     

    A testing a related issue later, and want to be sure.

     

    Stan

     

     

    Inspiring
    June 18, 2026

    Maybe it’s not the Stroke effect. I have a still image with no effects added except Gaussian Blur, and that is giving me the same problem - it looks correct playing in the timeline, then when I export it totally resizes. If I disable the Gaussian Blur effect, it exports correctly.