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Jan 10, 2024 9:27 AM UTC
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Flickering on renders from M2 Mac

Our color grader reported multiple flickering Prores444 clips, all of them rendered with an M2 Mac. We did a bunch of re-rendering with an Intel Mac and they came out nice an clean. After a few tests I can confirm that the M2 renders are unusable. The flicker is small but very noticable in the scopes and can been seen with pure eye on high contrast shots.

 

Here's a screen recording to see the issue: https://youtu.be/-eMXjwSmOmw


The flickering has been seen on renders coming from two different systems (M2 Max Macbook Pro and M2 Ultra Mac Studio). I haven't had time to do much trouble shooting, but disabling hardware acceleration didn't help. I also noticed that the flicker doesn't happen on the same frames every time if I render the same clip twice.

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nishu_kush
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Apr 2, 2024 7:40 PM UTC

Let us know if you're still having the issue.
I am moving this thread from Bugs to Discussions for now.

 

Thanks,
Nishu

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Participating Frequently
Jan 10, 2024 9:30 PM UTC

We're still stuck with Ventura, but hopefully get to update soon. Really good to hear that osx update might fix it then!

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Known Participant
Jan 10, 2024 5:19 PM UTC

I ran into a similar problem last summer and it was fixed with an OS up date. Are you up to date?

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-bugs/hardware-decoding-causes-green-flickering-in-prores-files/idc-p/14033246/page/2#M5779

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