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knowledgeable_Shimmer0D45
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March 21, 2020
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Blurring through Adjustment Layers does not seem to preview or render properly

  • March 21, 2020
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Hey all,

 

Does anyone have a quick fix for broken blur tools on Adjustment Layers? I have been experiencing a lot of trouble using these types of effects as of late, be it over transitions or over "still" video footage. 

It mostly happens with Gaussian Blur, where it sometimes shows up properly, but later on just might completely dissappear. Messing with the keyframes or values never seems to do anything in my favour, although deleting the effect and completely setting it back up again does work, from time to time. Problem is, the effect will just evaporate again, after maybe a full 30 seconds of editting further down the timeline. It's bothering me to bits.

It's not only the preview, the effect will also not render when this happens. I've experienced this multiple times (messing up a few edits here and there), and the bug (I presume it is) seems to be getting more consistent on my end. 

I'm working with Windows 10 (64 bit), a GeForce GTX 1070 (on CUDA preferences), Intel Core i7-5930K (3.5 GHz), 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM, and the latest version of Premiere Pro 2020. 

Here's an example where the footage should clearly be blurred to hell, but it shows up completely clean. In this particular edit, *none* of the blurs stayed around for longer than a minute — even after setting them up multiple times. 

 


Any quick work-arounds would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Tom

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Correct answer MyerPj

Understood.

I'm still on 14.03, did you switch to 14.04 yet? I put a gausian blur on an adjustment layer when I saw your question and I just went back to that PP project and it's still fine. I put a beginning, middle and end keyframes. Did you try deleting your cache files and perhaps Preview files also. To see if that helps the consistency. PP will recreate them as needed.

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Michael Grenadier
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March 22, 2020

have you tried nesting the clips and applying the blur to the nest rather than an adjustment layer?  Or am I missing something?

knowledgeable_Shimmer0D45
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March 22, 2020

I've done this a lot in the past, and it just ends up cluttering the workflow. I have a tendency to use about ~30 of these per (weekly) edit, which means naming just as many nested sequences (you can only "asfsafasd" so much) and having to host hundreds of extra files in the project. 

It's something, that's for sure, but I found that the just copying some adjustment layers around speeds up my process a lot. 

MyerPj
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MyerPjCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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March 21, 2020

Understood.

I'm still on 14.03, did you switch to 14.04 yet? I put a gausian blur on an adjustment layer when I saw your question and I just went back to that PP project and it's still fine. I put a beginning, middle and end keyframes. Did you try deleting your cache files and perhaps Preview files also. To see if that helps the consistency. PP will recreate them as needed.

knowledgeable_Shimmer0D45
knowledgeable_Shimmer0D45Author
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March 22, 2020

Good point! I'll try cleaning up the cache more often — it's something I tend to forget once a while anyway. Might just work...

MyerPj
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MyerPjCommunity Expert
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March 21, 2020

Can you put the blur on the clips instead of the adjustment layer?

 

knowledgeable_Shimmer0D45
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March 21, 2020

This takes up more time (because you'll have to tweak two clips to two separate effects), and simply wouldn't look as nice. You'll end up with two heavily blurred clips, with a "hard" cut in between them. 

 

 

When going for a slick "swoosh"-like transition, you'll want to blur the clips and the transition, I'd say. 

There's a bunch of preset transitions like these for sale. But I'm not going to hand over ~40 bucks for one effect that I should be able to make myself in a few seconds — if Premiere Pro didn't bug out on me, that is. 

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