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January 10, 2024
Question

Flickering on renders from M2 Mac

  • January 10, 2024
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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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April 2, 2024

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

 

Thanks,
Nishu

Participating Frequently
January 10, 2024

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

Known Participant
January 10, 2024

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